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Basketball and Hoop
Also known as: Basketball, Orange Ball
Unicode: U+1F3C0
Description
An orange-colored basketball. Originally intended to display as a basketball and a hoop, as per previous designs by Google, Samsung, and Microsoft. This emoji can be sent on Facebook Messenger to unlock a hidden basketball game.
Image Variants

3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0
Keywords
ballbasketballhoop
Shortcodes
Platform | Shortcode | Action |
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Emojipedia | :basketball: | |
GitHub | :basketball: | |
Slack | :basketball: | |
Discord | :basketball: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> Sport symbols
Definition:
An orange-colored basketball displayed with a hoop. Many versions of this emoji omit the hoop, and display only the basketball. This emoji c http://emojipedia.org/basketball-and-hoop/
Verbs:
- To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
- To take part in a sport's match.
- Participate in games or sport
- Participate in (a sport or game).
Nouns:
- The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America, and is widely considered to be the premier men's professional basketball league in the world.
- North American professional sports league
- A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
- Horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball
- A hoop use in basketball.
- A backboard is a piece of basketball equipment.
- The game of basketball.
- The hoop, holding a string net, through which the basketball must be placed to score
- Equipment used in basketball
- Round object
- Object, generally spherical, used for playing games.
- A ball is a round, usually spherical but sometimes ovoid, object with various uses.