Sport Emoji: Every Sports Emoji to Copy

All 27 sport emoji in Unicode’s sport list are below, ready to copy, from soccer ball to curling stone, plus the medals, trophies and games that go with them. Every set is plain emoji text that pastes into a caption, bio or message, and the tables give each emoji’s Unicode name, code point and the year it was added.

Unicode files sport emoji in its Activities group, along with medals, events, games, and arts and crafts. To check what an emoji means, see our emoji meanings dictionary; for trips, try the travel emoji sets.

Table of Contents

• What sport emoji can you copy?
• Which medal and trophy emoji are there?
• What other activity emoji suit sport posts?
• Football emoji meaning: soccer, American football or rugby?
• Which emoji combos work for game-day posts?
• Which sports have no emoji, and what can stand in?
• Frequently Asked Questions

What sport emoji can you copy?

Every emoji in Unicode’s sport subgroup copies as one line below, in Unicode’s own order, from soccer ball to curling stone. Select the whole line or pick out the ones you need. The oldest, such as soccer ball and basketball, date from 2010, and the newest in the list, diving mask, arrived in 2019.

The sport list holds objects only. Emoji of people playing sports sit in a separate list of people emoji, which this page doesn’t cover.

Which medal and trophy emoji are there?

Six award emoji cover the podium: trophy, sports medal, military medal and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place medals. Unicode added the trophy in 2010 and the three place medals in 2016. Emojipedia describes the trophy as one given in recognition of an achievement, usually in sports (checked 3 October 2026), and its keywords in Unicode’s CLDR data include champion, prize, victory and win.

Use the place medals for results, the sports medal for finishing an event, such as a first 10K, and the trophy for a title or a final. The military medal, as its name says, belongs to service posts rather than sport.

What other activity emoji suit sport posts?

The rest of Unicode’s Activities group fills in the moments around a match: tickets and party poppers from its event list, and a bullseye, pool 8 ball, video game and chess pawn from its game list. Darts, pool and gaming nights have nothing in the sport subgroup itself, so these do the job.

Sport emoji aren’t the busiest part of this group, though. In Unicode’s 2019 frequency data, a median across several sources, no sport emoji reached the top six rows; the Activities emoji that did were heart suit, party popper and sparkles.

Checked 3 October 2026 against Unicode's emoji frequency page (2019 data).

Football emoji meaning: soccer, American football or rugby?

Unicode’s emoji list has no emoji called just football: the three balls are soccer ball, american football and rugby football. Which one a “football emoji” means depends on where the poster lives, and Unicode’s own regional data reflects that.

Unicode’s CLDR data, which supplies emoji names for each language and region, names the soccer ball simply “football” in British, Australian and Indian English, and names the American football “football” in Canadian English (CLDR 48, checked 3 October 2026). In its default English data, all three balls carry “football” as a keyword. So use the ball your audience calls football, and name the sport in words if your followers live in different countries.

Which emoji combos work for game-day posts?

Lead with the ball for your sport, add the moment (a stadium, tickets or a trophy), and close with hearts in your team’s colours. Two hearts side by side read as a team strip: green and white, red and white, blue and yellow. Our heart emoji meanings guide covers what each colour says on its own. These combos are our suggestions.

Put a combo at the start of a post as a quick visual cue, or at the end as a sign-off, and keep it to three or four emoji so the words still lead. For workout posts, pair the kit with lines from our fitness motivation captions, or draft captions by topic and tone with the free Instagram caption generator.

Which sports have no emoji, and what can stand in?

Pickleball, padel, squash, netball, darts, snooker and esports have no emoji named for them. We checked every name in Unicode’s Emoji 18.0 list, including the people-playing-sports emoji this page leaves out. The stand-ins below are our suggestions, each backed by a keyword that Unicode’s CLDR data attaches to that emoji.

Pair a stand-in with the sport’s name, because on its own the emoji reads as whatever Unicode calls it: ping pong, not pickleball.

Why no pickleball emoji? New emoji ideas are submitted to Unicode through its proposal process. The latest submission window closed on 31 July 2026 and reopens in 2027, and Unicode says only a very small percentage of submissions advance (checked 3 October 2026). The sport list itself hasn’t grown since diving mask in 2019.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What sports emojis are there?

Unicode’s sport list in Emoji 18.0 has 27 emoji, from soccer ball (⚽) and basketball (🏀) to skis (🎿) and curling stone (🥌), plus six award emoji such as trophy (🏆) and 1st place medal (🥇). Emoji of people playing sports sit in a separate list.

Is there a pickleball emoji?

No. Unicode’s Emoji 18.0 list has no emoji named for pickleball. The closest stand-in is ping pong (🏓): Unicode’s CLDR data gives it the keyword “paddle” and names it “table tennis” in British English. New emoji ideas are submitted through Unicode’s proposal process.

What does the trophy emoji mean?

A win or an achievement. Unicode names it simply trophy (🏆), and its CLDR keywords include champion, prize, victory and win. Emojipedia describes a trophy given in recognition of an achievement, usually in sports. It was approved in Unicode 6.0 in 2010.

What emoji means game day?

No single emoji is named game day. Combine the ball for your sport with stadium (🏟️) or admission tickets (🎟️), then add two hearts in your team’s colours, such as green heart and white heart for a green-and-white team.