Bouncing Ball Emoji

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Bouncing Ball Emoji

⛹️Person bouncing ballU+26F9 U+FE0FReady to copy

39 items. Tap one to copy it.

Bouncing ball emoji 4

Balls that bounce 4

On the court 3

Map symbols beside it 6

Typed bouncing balls 6

Dribble lines 5

Bouncing ball combos 11

Next step The handball emoji, the other player filed under throwNext: the running emoji

How it works

The bouncing ball emoji is Person bouncing ball: U+26F9 and a variation selector, an emoji since Emoji 0.7. Emoji 4.0 added Man bouncing ball and Woman bouncing ball. All three take five skin tones.

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It began as a map symbol

The character is older than the emoji. PERSON WITH BALL joined Unicode in version 5.2, in a run the names list heads Map symbols from ARIB STD B24, glossed track and field, gymnasium. Its neighbours mark an ice skating rink and a camping site: Ice skate and Tent.

Which ball it is

The name says ball and nothing more. CLDR, Unicode’s list of search words, files the player under basketball, dribble and net, and Emojipedia records it generally drawn as a basketball player dribbling. By Wikipedia, a basketball dribble is bouncing the ball non-stop on the floor, one hand at a time.

  • Person with ball, text style is the same character with variation selector 15, which asks for a plain symbol instead of the picture.
  • A toned player drops the selector: light skin tone is U+26F9 U+1F3FB, two code points.

Questions and answers

Is there a bouncing ball emoticon?

No Unicode character is named for a bounce, so the typed ones here are this site’s own. A full stop, a middle dot and a dot above trace the path: .·˙·.·˙·. Add a black circle and the ball is at the end of it.

Is the bouncing ball emoji a basketball player?

In all but name. Championship and dribble are search words that lead to this player alone, and basketball leads to two emoji: the player and Basketball, U+1F3C0, the only one filed under hoop.

Is there a woman bouncing ball emoji?

Yes: Woman bouncing ball is five code points, U+26F9 U+FE0F U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. The man takes U+2642 in place of U+2640.

All 39 items

Bouncing ball emoji 4

  • Man bouncing ball U+26F9 U+FE0F U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. The player, a variation selector, a zero width joiner, Male sign and a second selector: five code points. Emoji 4.0.
  • Person bouncing ball U+26F9 U+FE0F. The bouncing ball emoji. Its Unicode character name is PERSON WITH BALL. Filed under bouncing, dribble, basketball and throw. Emoji 0.7.
  • Person with ball, text style U+26F9 U+FE0E. The player followed by variation selector 15.
  • Woman bouncing ball U+26F9 U+FE0F U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. The same five code points, with Female sign in place of Male sign. Emoji 4.0.

Balls that bounce 4

  • Basketball U+1F3C0. The only emoji filed under hoop. The one ball emoji that shares the search word basketball with the player. Emoji 0.6.
  • Black circle U+25CF. A ball in plain text, for a typed bounce.
  • Soccer ball U+26BD. Filed under ball and football. Emoji 0.6.
  • Volleyball U+1F3D0. Filed under ball and game. Emoji 1.0.

On the court 3

  • Goal net U+1F945. The only other emoji filed under net. Emoji 3.0.
  • Running shoe U+1F45F. The only other emoji filed under athletic. Emoji 0.6.
  • Stopwatch U+23F1 U+FE0F. Filed under clock and time. Emoji 1.0.
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Map symbols beside it 6

  • Flag in hole U+26F3. On the map list it marks a golf course. Emoji 0.6.
  • Ice skate U+26F8 U+FE0F. The code point before the player. On the map list it marks an ice skating rink. Emoji 0.7.
  • Sailboat U+26F5. On the map list it marks a marina or yacht harbour. Emoji 0.6.
  • Skier U+26F7 U+FE0F. On the same list of map symbols, where it marks a ski resort. Emoji 0.7.
  • Tent U+26FA. The code point after the player. On the map list it marks a camping site. Emoji 0.6.
  • Umbrella on ground U+26F1 U+FE0F. On the map list it marks a bathing beach. Emoji 0.7.

Typed bouncing balls 6

  • .·˙·.·˙·. The path of a ball over two bounces: full stop, middle dot, dot above, and down again.
  • .·˙·.·˙·.● The same path with the ball at the end of it.
  • *boing* The sound alone, between two asterisks.
  • . o O o . A ball bouncing toward you and away again: small, big, small.
  • o/ . A low dribble: an o for the head, a slash for the arm, a full stop for the ball at the floor.
  • o/ ° . ° . A dribble on the move: up, down, up, down.

Dribble lines 5

  • boing, boing, swish Two bounces and a basket.
  • bounce it or pass it A dribbler’s choice.
  • eyes up, ball down A dribbler looking for the pass.
  • one hand at a time How Wikipedia defines a basketball dribble.
  • still bouncing For a day that keeps going.

Bouncing ball combos 11

  • Dribble, stop, dribble Person bouncing ball, twice, then prohibited. By Wikipedia, dribbling again after the ball has come to rest in a hand is an illegal dribble.
  • Driveway hoops House, then person bouncing ball.
  • End to end Dashing away, then person bouncing ball.
  • Give and go Woman bouncing ball, then left-right arrow, then man bouncing ball.
  • Gym on the map Round pushpin, then person bouncing ball.
  • Last second Person bouncing ball, then stopwatch, then goal net.
  • Late game Crescent moon, then person bouncing ball.
  • School gym School, then person bouncing ball.
  • Shoes laced Running shoe, then person bouncing ball.
  • Title run Person bouncing ball, then trophy.
  • Track and field Person running, then person bouncing ball.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-08 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). The character name PERSON WITH BALL is from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and its Unicode version, 5.2, from DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt). The heading Map symbols from ARIB STD B24 and the glosses of the map symbols (track and field, gymnasium; ski resort; ice skating rink; camping site; golf course; bathing beach; marina or yacht harbour) are from the Unicode names list (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). That U+26F9 has a text style form with variation selector 15 is from emoji-variation-sequences.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt). What a dribble and a double dribble are is as Wikipedia records it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dribbling, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_dribble, CC BY-SA 4.0), restated. How the emoji is generally drawn is as Emojipedia records it (https://emojipedia.org/person-bouncing-ball), restated. The typed faces, the lines and the combo names are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Emojipedia are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.

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