🏀

Basketball Emoji 🏀

An orange ball with the familiar black seam lines — that's the basketball emoji. It covers NBA talk, March Madness brackets, pickup games at the park, and slang like someone 'having game,' whether that's on the court or just generally being smooth.

What 🏀 means

An orange ball with engraved black lines that are designed in a particular way such that it forms the universal signature design of a basketball.

The 🏀 Basketball emoji represents a game of basketball. But, this emoji could also suggest many notions attached to the game; gaining height, fitness, etc.

How and when to use it

If someone talking 'too small' or 'acting small', you can use 🏀. How? For example, "Yo, man. Can't you get your mind off the gutter? 🏀 Here, grow some higher thinking".
You could also use 🏀 to indicate that someone or something is an 'airball'. For instance, "Omg. My efforts feel like air balls, rn. 🏀".
Also, if you're looking for the right emoji for someone who talks ALL THE TIME or who constantly texts you despite of dropping hints that you're not interested, here's your answer - 🏀. Like, "Dude. She keeps dribbling over and over again, UGH 🏀".
If you're sharing content on basketball, a post about an upcoming game, a repost about the previous game's results, a story about your buddies and yourself catching up for the game, etc, use 🏀.

Other Names

🏀 Orange Ball
🏀 Basketball Game
🏀 Hoops
🏀 Hooping
🏀 Ball and Hoop
🏀 B-Ball

The lowdown

Category: Activities › sport
Codepoints: U+1F3C0
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :basketball:
Keywords: ball, basketball, hoop, sport

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.