🏀 Basketball
The 🏀 Basketball emoji (U+1F3C0) is part of the Activities category, where it sits in the Sports group alongside 42 related emojis. It is tagged with the keywords basketball, ball, and nba, which captures how people actually use it: when someone wants to express basketball in a message, caption, or comment, 🏀 is one of the glyphs they reach for, and it also carries connotations of ball, and nba. Like every emoji, the Basketball renders slightly differently on Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft devices because each platform draws its own artwork, but the underlying Unicode code point U+1F3C0 is identical everywhere, so the meaning travels even when the pixels change. On this page you can copy the 🏀 emoji with one click and paste it into any app that accepts Unicode text — chats, social posts, emails, and documents. Emojis most closely related to 🏀 in the Sports group include ⚽ Soccer Ball, 🏈 American Football, ⚾ Baseball, 🎾 Tennis, 🏐 Volleyball, 🏉 Rugby Football, and it is frequently combined with ⚽ Soccer Ball and 🏈 American Football in messages. The Activities category contains 71 emojis in total on Emoji Reference.