Alt Code Shortcuts for Sports and Games Emoji

Unicode has more than 3600 emoji symbols and sport and game emoji symbols are available under “Activities” category. There are around 50 emoji under this group. You can use alt code keyboard shortcuts to insert sports and games related emoji in Windows based documents like Word, Excel and PowerPoint. It is also possible to insert some of these symbols in Mac using option key.

Remember, there are hundreds of other games related symbols available in Unicode which are not part of emoji. Check out our articles on chess symbols, playing cards suit, award medals, mahjong tiles and domino tiles to get more shortcuts.

1. Alt Code Shortcuts for Sport and Game Emoji

Below is the complete list of all sport and game related emoji. It includes the following group of symbols:

• Sport – 27 emoji
• Game – 23 emoji
• Person sport – 17 emoji
• Special – 2 emoji (sports utility vehicle and sports medal emoji)

2. How to Use Sport and Game Emoji in Windows?

2.1. Alt + Decimal Code

Press and hold alt key and then type the decimal numbers from the above table using numeric pad on your keyboard. Remember, you should use numeric pad, using regular number keys will not work with this method. But using this way, you can insert symbols on all types documents.

Example: Alt + 9917 = ⚽.

2.2. Hex Code + Alt + X

Type the hexadecimal code given in the above table using regular keyboard number keys. After that hold alt and x keys to convert the numbers into a symbol. This method will only work on Word documents.

Example: 2655 + Alt + X = ♕.

2.3. Using Emoji Panel in Windows

Press “Win Logo + Semicolon” keys to open emoji panel in Windows 10/11 computers. Using this app, you can search and insert sport & game emoji on your documents.

3. Insert Sport & Game Emoji in Mac

There are two methods to insert sports emoji symbols in Mac.

3.1. Using Option Code Shortcut

Change the input source to Unicode Hex Input and use option code with hex code to insert some of these symbols. However, it works only with 4 digits hexadecimal code.

Example: Option + 26BD = ⚽.

3.2. Using Character Viewer App

Press “Control + Command + Space” to open Character Viewer app. Using this app, you can search and insert sport / game related emoji.

Symbol Variations

Windows documents will show these symbols as line diagram. Therefore, similar to any text content you can customize the symbols inserted using alt codes. You can change the size, color of the outlined symbols, bold and italicize the symbols as you like. Below are some of the example variations.

Alt + Key (Decimal)	Alt + X (Hex Code)	Symbol	Symbol Description
Alt + 9825	2661	♡	Heart Suit
Alt + 127919	1F3AF	🎯	Archery Target
Alt + 9831	2667	♧	White Club Suit
Alt + 127921	1F3B1	🎱	Billiards
Alt + 9816	2658	♘	White Chess Knight
Alt + 9917	26BD	⚽	Soccer Ball

However, you can’t change the appearance of these emoji symbols in Mac documents as they will appear as solid emoji.

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