An oval brown ball with rounded ends and no laces, distinct enough from 🏈 American Football's pointed tips and stitched seams. People still mix the two up in searches, but it stands for rugby specifically, union or league, showing up for World Cup posts and club matches, plus fans making a point of correcting anyone who calls it football.
What 🏉 means
A slightly bulkier oval ball as compared to the 🏈 American Football, with light-brown skin, rugged lines as designs and a couple of stitched lines at the middle.
The 🏉 Rugby Football emoji signifies the sport, the game, and every competition or league associated with rugby. This emoji can also signify team play, outdoor sports, muscle strength, and overall vigor.
How and when to use it
- Apart from just the game, you can also use 🏉 in the caption while posting content on rugby fashion.
- If you're sharing a picture of yourself with a caption that resonates with the values of rugby, or your personal sentiments with the game, use 🏉 in it.
- If you're sharing a 'TGIF' social media story/post/text message, thus indicating that you'll have loads of time to enjoy your leisure rugby time, play a match, or watch one, you can use 🏉.
- Also, use 🏉 while sharing info about the game, an ongoing league, a match you're taking part in, or even countdown posts/stories of the much-awaited championship(s)!
Other Names
- 🏉 Rugby
- 🏉 Football
- 🏉 League
- 🏉 Championship
- 🏉 Union
- 🏉 Pigskin Sport
The lowdown
- Category
- Activities › sport
- Codepoints
U+1F3C9- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:rugby_football:- Keywords
- ball, football, rugby, 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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🏉 Rugby Football or 🐿️ Chipmunk?
Runs with a crowd
🏉 keeps company in sports emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.