U+1F94C "🥌" Curling Stone Unicode Character

U+1F94C "🥌" Curling Stone is a pictographic representation of the heavy granite stone used in the winter sport of curling, where players slide it across the ice toward a target area while teammates sweep the ice to control its speed and direction. This character is part of the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block, having been added to the Unicode Standard in 2014 as part of Unicode 7.0 to support the growing demand for diverse sport and activity emojis. Visually, the emoji typically depicts a rounded stone with a handle on top, often shown in gray or dark tones to simulate the granite material, and it can be used in digital communication to reference the sport of curling, winter activities, or related metaphors about teamwork and precision.