🤸‍♂️

Man Cartwheeling Emoji 🤸‍♂️

What 🤸‍♂️ means

A full-length, upside-down profile of a man with either his face or the back of his head visible, while he balances his entire body on his hands and widely spreads out both legs.

The 🤸‍♂️ Man Cartwheeling emoji refers to a male gymnast or an athlete. It signifies great flexibility, body balance, strength, and vigor. It can also suggest excitement, happiness, and a sense of being bubbly and playful.

This emoji is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

If you're posting a picture of you doing a cartwheel all by yourself or with your besties or your kids, you can use 🤸‍♂️ in the caption.
Apart from gymnastics, cartwheels are also used in dance. So, if you're posting an extraordinary dance video or picture where the performer cartwheels, you can use 🤸‍♂️ in such captions.
🤸‍♂️ can also be used to show boundless and innocent excitement and happiness. For example, if you're posting about the new shoes your partner got you, you can use 🤸‍♂️ in that caption as a way of saying "Omgggg. These Skechers are EVERYTHING 🤸‍♂️ Thanks, babe" (babe is probably not everyone's word, so you can just replace it with the one you use to address you S.O).
You can also use 🤸‍♂️ while posting memes, fails and funny videos or pictures of a cartwheel gone wrong, like a puppy rolling down the hallway for food or out of sheer enthusiasm or something.
If you are a professional gymnast or you just love cartwheeling, use 🤸‍♂️ in your social media profile name.

Other Names

🤸‍♂️ Male Gymnast
🤸‍♂️ Cartwheeling
🤸‍♂️ Male Athlete
🤸‍♂️ Somersault
🤸‍♂️ Aerobatics
🤸‍♂️ Acrobatics
🤸‍♂️ Male Acrobat
🤸‍♂️ Tumbling Over
🤸‍♂️ Upside Down

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-sport
Codepoints: U+1F938 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 4.0
Shortcodes: :man-cartwheeling: Slack:man_cartwheeling: Discord
Keywords: active, cartwheel, cartwheeling, excited, flip, gymnastics, happy, man, somersault
How it's built: Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.