A fuzzy yellow-green tennis ball, sometimes shown with a racket — that's the tennis emoji. It's used for match days, Grand Slam season, casual court sessions, and the back-and-forth rhythm of the sport itself, occasionally borrowed to describe a conversation volleying back and forth.
What 🎾 means
A yellow ball with two loop-like white lines on both ends of it. Most platforms showcase this emoji along with a racket, where the tennis ball is much smaller and placed next to the larger racket.
The 🎾 Tennis emoji is a synecdoche to the game. It also represents tennis-related leagues and championships. On the whole, this emoji signifies team play, physical strength, focus, and passion, of course.
How and when to use it
- It doesn't always have to be tennis to use 🎾; if the platform you're using shows this emoji as just a ball, then you can use it while sharing content of playing ball; it can be a game with your doggo, a hand-eye coordination lesson, a game of catch with your little one, anything.
- Use 🎾 while sharing posts for/about tennis players; it can be famous players or even someone who just started off. These posts include appreciation posts, birthday posts, tributes, etc.
- Similar to the first post, you can also use 🎾 while reposting cute videos, posts, reels, and even pictures of animals playing ball; your dog, someone else's dog, a cat, etc.
- Also, if you're posting pictures of a tennis medal, trophy, or any award you won or that of someone close to you, you can use 🎾 in the caption.
Other Names
- 🎾 Tennis Ball
- 🎾 Tennis Ball and Racket
- 🎾 Tennis Racket
- 🎾 Tennis Racquet
- 🎾 Courte Paume
- 🎾 Royal Tennis
- 🎾 Real Tennis
- 🎾 Court Tennis
The lowdown
- Category
- Activities › sport
- Codepoints
U+1F3BE- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:tennis:- Keywords
- ball, racquet, sport, tennis
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 — 🎾 Tennis or 🗞️ Rolled-up Newspaper?
Runs with a crowd
🎾 keeps company in sports emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.