People & Body · Emoji 4.0
⛹️♀️Woman Bouncing Ball Emoji
Basically, it means someone is good at basketball or is involved in a basketball-related activity. People use it to show support, excitement, or just to make a playful comment.
The ⛹️♀️ emoji is a woman bouncing a basketball.
- Unicode
- U+26F9 U+FE0F U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :woman-
bouncing- ball: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the ⛹️♀️ Woman Bouncing Ball emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 10.
02 — Platforms
Woman Bouncing Ball emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+26F9. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 5.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Woman Bouncing Ball emoji skin tones
⛹️♀️ supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Woman Bouncing Ball emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :woman-bouncing-ball:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the woman bouncing ball, code point U+26F9.
05 — How to type
How to type the ⛹️♀️ Woman Bouncing Ball emoji
No picker to hand? The woman bouncing ball can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Woman Bouncing Ball emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the woman bouncing ball as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 5 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Woman Bouncing Ball emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around woman bouncing ball for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What ⛹️♀️ means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the woman bouncing ball and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What ⛹️♀️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the woman bouncing ball lands changes how it is taken.
11 — Difference
⛹️♀️ vs 🏋️♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Woman Bouncing Ball
Code: U+26F9 U+FE0F U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :woman-bouncing-ball:
Basically, it means someone is good at basketball or is involved in a basketball-related activity.
Unicode name: Woman Lifting Weights
Code: U+1F3CB U+FE0F U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :woman-lifting-weights:
Basically, it means someone is talking about lifting weights, working out, or generally being fit.
12 — History
Where the ⛹️♀️ Woman Bouncing Ball emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 4.0, the woman bouncing ball has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 10.
Same character every time — U+26F9 U+FE0F U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Woman Bouncing Ball was approved as U+26F9 U+FE0F U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 4.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so ⛹️♀️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ