🎳

Bowling Emoji 🎳

A white bowling pin standing next to a black ball, that's the bowling emoji, used for bowling-alley plans and league nights. It also covers the satisfaction of an actual strike, plus the odd metaphorical nod to knocking something down in one clean shot.

What 🎳 means

Three bowling pins with a white body and a pair of red bands at the neck, placed in a circle while a black bowling ball with three holes is kept within the semi-circle made by the pins.

The 🎳 Bowling emoji signifies aim, strategy, movement, and focus, most of all. It could also represent a bunch of idioms and metaphorical interpretations associated with the game.

How and when to use it

If you're texting someone about how you or someone else was 'bowled over' or sharing a post/repost conveying similar essence, you can use 🎳. For example, "I was absolutely bowled over by his performance! 🎳" or "Please take a look at how this little kiddo is bowled over by his mum's costume 🎳".
Similarly, you can also use 🎳 while indicating that you would bowl someone over - "Just wait until I bowl her over with my manners 🎳".
You can also use 🎳 in contexts of 'aim'. For instance, "You don't 'suck' okay? You just need to practice aiming 🎳 Aim for the best, mate!".
Also, bring 🎳 into frameworks that say 'roll onto' or 'roll/rolled', or mean it; it can be a literal reference or a metaphorical one too.

Other Names

🎳 Bowls
🎳 Bowling Pins and Ball
🎳 Candlepin Bowling
🎳 Bowling Ball
🎳 Pin
🎳 Skittles
🎳 Ten Pin Bowling

The lowdown

Category: Activities › sport
Codepoints: U+1F3B3
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :bowling:
Keywords: ball, bowling, game, sport, strike

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.