🏀️ Basketball emoji
HTML
🏀
Unicode
U+1F3C0
What is 🏀️ called?
🏀️ is called the Basketball emoji.
It is also known as basketball ball, hoops ball, or basketball sport. These are natural common, regional, technical, or appearance-based terms rather than extra official names; Unicode’s official name is basketball.
What does 🏀️ mean?
🏀 is officially named basketball. It shows a basketball representing indoor team sport, athletic competition, professional sports, and the orange ball used in basketball games. This symbolizes team athletics, indoor sports, and competitive basketball.
Use it for literal references to basketball and for indoor team sport, athletic competition, professional sports, court game. The orange panelled ball represents basketball and can also signal “hoops”; it does not depict a hoop or a player. Related choices include 🥎 Softball and 🏐 Volleyball.
Other meanings
It can mean indoor team sport, athletic competition, professional sports, court game. Context determines whether a message is sporting, recreational, competitive, equipment-related, or metaphorical.
Example Usage
The players dribbled the basketball 🏀 down the court toward the hoop
The event or sports update marks basketball 🏀
More details
Officially named basketball. Its code point is U+1F3C0. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0.
Related emoji
Ball emojis
March Madness emojis
NBA All-Star Game emojis
Visual description
An orange ball with curved lines showing the characteristic appearance and markings of a basketball.
The orange panelled ball represents basketball and can also signal “hoops”; it does not depict a hoop or a player. Colours, proportions, orientation, and fine details vary by platform.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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