petanqueemoji.org
Rugby has one. Curling has one. Lacrosse — lacrosse! — has one. Pétanque is still waiting: tens of millions of players across five continents, and not a single key on the keyboard. Time to fix this typographic injustice.
And millions of casual games among friends — at the apéro, on the beach, at the campsite, on the village square — that nobody can type out.
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Born in La Ciotat in 1910, pétanque has become the world's leading boules sport: 300,000 licensed players in France alone, tens of millions of casual ones, and a presence in 165 countries across five continents. From village squares to the boulodromes of Bangkok, it is a universal language of conviviality.
Born in Japan in the late 1990s, emoji have become a global language, curated by the Unicode Consortium, which reviews new proposals every year. Rugby has one. Curling has one. Lacrosse has one. Pétanque — still nothing.
In 2022, around the Mondial La Marseillaise, a first campaign called for a pétanque emoji: petitions, articles, thousands of supporters. Then nothing — no proposal was ever filed. This time, we're seeing it through. Final score included.
Pétanque is just the tip of a vast family of boules games — bocce, lawn bowls, boccia, bowls, petanca… — united under an international federation recognized by the IOC. Tens of millions of players across five continents. And still no emoji to represent them.
🎳 is not pétanque: grooved steel boules, a wooden jack, a gravel court. A unique, instantly recognizable object — even as an emoji.
Press kit in the making. Journalists — we answer fast, faster than a well-aimed shot.
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