A gender-neutral person bouncing a ball, generically depicting basketball but sometimes used more loosely for any ball-bouncing/dribbling reference. Used for basketball content, sports-fandom posts, or metaphorically describing someone 'staying in the game' or keeping momentum going. Trivia: this emoji, like skier and golfer, requires a variation selector due to its legacy pictograph origin, and its rendering varies more than most sports emoji across platforms — some show a clear basketball hoop/court context while others show just the figure and ball in isolation, leading to it sometimes being mistaken for a generic 'person with ball' rather than specifically basketball.
Keywords: athletic, ball, basketball, bouncing, championship, dribble, net, person, player, throw