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Motorway Emoji 🛣️

Stretching off toward the horizon, lane markings visible for as far as the eye can follow. It's used for road trips and long drives, carrying that specific open-road feeling of a straight line with nothing but distance ahead and a playlist to get through it all before arriving anywhere.

What 🛣️ means

A secluded roadway with greenery on both sides and a straight and well-maintained grey lane. There's also a large signboard over the road which has a mountainous view ahead.

The 🛣️ Motorway emoji can signify traveling through an unfrequented part of the city/town, like the outskirts or a controlled-access highway within a region, essentially suggesting a long drive/ride. This emoji can also represent a sense of entering a new city or returning to the same.

How and when to use it

If you're sharing social media stories or posts about the most-awaited road trip you're currently on, you can use 🛣️ while indicating that you're entering a new city/state.
If you're just uploading an aesthetic "driving on the highway" video or boomerang, then too, you can use 🛣️.
If you're texting someone that you're nearing the desired destination or that you've crossed one of the significant milestones on the journey, you can use 🛣️. Like, "Just crossed the third toll 🛣️ Should be there in 30 mins".
While posting or reposting content related to highways, 🛣️ should be in the caption. It can be a news post, a horror story, anything.
You could also use 🛣️ in indirect frameworks where a particular caption/quote has the word 'highway', 'drive', etc, in it. For instance, "It's my way or the highway 🛣️".

Other Names

🛣️ Highway
🛣️ Controlled-Access Highway
🛣️ Superhighway
🛣️ Autobahn
🛣️ Autoroute
🛣️ Dual Carriageway
🛣️ Autostrada
🛣️ City Outskirts
🛣️ Secluded Area
🛣️ Long Drive
🛣️ Long-Distance Travel

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › transport-ground
Codepoints: U+1F6E3 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.7
Shortcodes: :motorway: GitHub
Keywords: highway, motorway, road

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.