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๐ฑ Billiards
Also known as: 8 Ball, Cue Ball, Magic 8 Ball, Pool, Snooker
Unicode: U+1F3B1
Description
This emoji displays the black 8 ball on most platforms, which looks similar to the Magic 8-Ball toy. This is despite the fact that emoji was originally created intending to represent game of billiards, of which pool is a common version. Samsung previously displayed this emoji with a cue and triangular arrangement of colored balls, as did Google and Microsoft (sans cue).
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Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0
Keywords
8ballbilliardeightgamepool 8 ball
Shortcodes
Platform | Shortcode | Action |
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Emojipedia | :pool_8_ball: | |
GitHub | :8ball: | |
Slack | :8ball: | |
Discord | :8ball: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> Game symbol
Definition:
The game of billiards,ย of which pool is a common version. This emoji displays the black 8 ball on most platforms, which looks similar to the http://emojipedia.org/billiards/
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:
- A game played with a cue and balls, such as billiards.
- Game played with cue and balls.
- Any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls
- A class of games being payed with hard balls, shot with the tips of stick called cues, on tables of recatangular shape, usually covered with green felt coating having edges made of cushions that reflect balls almost perfecty when they roll against them at every spped.
- Cue sports, also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber.
- The billards ball, almost always black, bearing the number eight.
- Eight-ball is a pool game popular in much of the world, and the subject of international professional and amateur competition.
- A black pool ball bearing the number 8; should be the last to go in certain pool games