Messaging about watching NBA or college basketball games
Messaging about watching NBA or college basketball games.
Activities
🏀 Basketball Emoji
The 🏀 Basketball emoji represents basketball, commonly used for NBA games, playing hoops, streetball, team training, or scoring points.
QUICK FACTS
- Official name
- Basketball
- Category
- Activities
- Subcategory
- Sport
- Unicode
- U+1F3C0
- Emoji version
- 0.6
- Unicode version
- 17.0
What Does Mean?
The 🏀 Basketball emoji represents the sport of basketball. It is heavily used when messaging about NBA games, playing pick-up hoops, shooting baskets, basketball training, or making clutch plays.
Tone
EnergeticCompetitiveAthleticDynamic
Quick Meaning
The 🏀 Basketball emoji represents basketball, commonly used for NBA games, playing hoops, streetball, team training, or scoring points.
Use Cases
How People Use 🏀
Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.
Inviting friends to play pick-up hoops at the court
Inviting friends to play pick-up hoops at the court.
Sharing basketball workout and training updates
Sharing basketball workout and training updates.
Real Messages
🏀 Emoji Examples
Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for 🏀.
“Pick-up basketball game at the park 🏀 👟”
“Game 7 tonight! Let's go 🏀 🏆”
“Working on my three-point shot 🏀”
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Lookup Data
Names, Keywords and Search Terms
Search terms, common aliases, and lookup keywords.
Official Name
Basketball
Subcategory: SportAliases & Common Names
- basketball
- hoops
- orange ball
Keywords & Search Terms
- basketball
- hoops
- nba
- ball
- sport
- game
- court
- shoot
- points
Developer Reference
🏀 Emoji Codes
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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+1F3C0Code points
U+1F3C0UTF-8 bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0x80UTF-16
\uD83C\uDFC0HTML decimal entity
🏀HTML hexadecimal entity
🏀JavaScript escape
\u{1F3C0}CSS escape
\1F3C0 Python string
\U0001F3C0Emoji Styles
See 🏀 in Different Styles
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Microsoft Fluent
MIT License
Google Noto
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
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FAQ
Questions About 🏀
Frequently asked questions about meaning, copying, PNG export, and Unicode data.
The 🏀 Basketball emoji represents basketball, commonly used for NBA games, playing hoops, streetball, team training, or scoring points.
Yes. When licensed artwork is available, choose a style and download 1× (128×128), 2× (256×256), 4× (512×512), or 8× (1024×1024) PNG artwork. EmojiMint shows the selected provider, background, and exact pixel dimensions before download.
Yes. The surrounding words, relationship, and platform can change how 🏀 is read, so add text when the intent matters.
The Unicode code point for 🏀 is U+1F3C0.
🏀 is usually the more general choice. ⚽ Soccer Ball is different because represents a black-and-white soccer ball.
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