🤾

Person Playing Handball Emoji 🤾

What 🤾 means

Caught mid-air in a flying "smash" position, this gender-neutral handball player is shown full body in profile, ball held in one hand with both feet off the ground.

The 🤾 Person Playing Handball emoji refers to any handball player irrespective of gender and sex. Indicating both indoor and outdoor handball, it can also signify the signature 'slam dunk' in basketball.

This emoji is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

If you're posting a picture or video of you playing handball, use 🤾 in the post caption. The same applies to posts that are handball-related although they may not have you in them.
If you are a professional handball player, then you can use 🤾 in your social media profile name.
If you're a part of a handball team, or you own that team, that also has an active social media handle, you can use 🤾 while posting anything team-related. It can be the latest news, the best score, or even a welcoming message to any new players.
As mentioned before, 🤾 can also be used in a 'slam dunk' context. So, if you are using it this way, then you can pair it up with the 🏀 Basketball and ⛹ Person Bouncing Ball emojis, to specify the intent.
🤾 can also convey a sense of aggressively throwing something, either at someone or just aimlessly. So, the next time you rant about that useless pair of shoes you spent a fortune on, you can use this emoji as a way of saying "Oh, how I wish I could turn back time and throw these shoes back into that store! 🤾".

Other Names

🤾 Gender-Neutral Handball Player
🤾 Handball
🤾 Smash Ball
🤾 Slam Dunk
🤾 Handball Smash
🤾 Throwing a Ball
🤾 Throwball

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-sport
Codepoints: U+1F93E
Emoji version: Emoji 3.0
Shortcodes: :handball_person: GitHub:handball: Slack · Discord:person_playing_handball: Discord
Keywords: athletics, ball, catch, chuck, handball, hurl, lob, person, pitch, playing, sport, throw, toss

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.