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Meaning & usage
What does the Volleyball emoji mean?
A volleyball, for the sport, beach games and team play.
Sporting and social. Beach games and league matches share it.
How to use 🏐 naturally
Match posts, beach holidays and club training.
Activity emoji name what is happening rather than how anyone feels about it. They work as compact labels for plans, results and hobbies, which is why invitations and announcements lean on them so heavily.
From standard to slang
The history of 🏐
- 2015
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Volleyball was first defined as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. The first release where Unicode versioned the emoji set as a standard in its own right.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A white ball with coloured panel lines, added in 2010 with a group of sports characters. The curved panel lines are what distinguish it from the football beside it.
- Today
How its use evolved
Match posts, beach holidays and club training.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🏐 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Training moved to Thursday 🏐
Beach game until it went dark 🏐
Set, spike, and a sore wrist 🏐
When to use it
Using 🏐 clearly
Match posts, beach holidays and club training. It lands as volleyball emoji or 🏐 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the volleyball emoji
What does 🏐 mean in a text message?
A volleyball, for the sport, beach games and team play. Sporting and social. Beach games and league matches share it.
Is 🏐 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are volleyball emoji, 🏐 meaning, sport emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🏐 look different on another device?
U+1F3D0 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the volleyball emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🏐 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the volleyball emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🏐 as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🏐 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F3D0 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🏐 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🏐 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F3D0 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3D0} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8F%90 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F3D0
- Category
- Activities & Play
- Also known as
- volleyball emoji🏐 meaningsport emoji
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