🤾 Person playing handball
🤾 Emoji meaning
Team sport, goal, endurance, speed, coordination.
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🤾 Meaning
Two teams try to throw the ball into the opponent's goal. The counterpart to football is a well-known and popular team sport. Stands for stamina, speed and coordination.
Examples
- I play handball. 🤾
- What a great goal! 🤾
- Are you coming to practice? 🤾
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
People wrestling vs handball; both involve multiple limbs entangled or overlapping, difficult to distinguish at tiny size.
Handball vs soccer ball; handball emoji can be read as a person throwing a generic ball, often associated with football.
Person playing handball vs volleyball; both involve a ball above the head and sports court context.
Variants
U+1F93E U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
U+1F93E U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Person playing handball” was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 3.0.
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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