🧗

Person Climbing Emoji 🧗

Scaling a rock face, one hand and foot reaching for the next hold — this depicts rock climbing, indoors or out. It's used for the literal sport and, more loosely, for tackling a tough challenge or 'climbing' toward a goal one grip at a time.

What 🧗 means

A full-length emoji with a gender-neutral person dressed in comfy, climbing clothes, while strapped onto rock-climbing gear as the character clings onto a rocky protrusion.

The 🧗 Person Climbing emoji refers to the activity of rock climbing, but can also signify mountaineering. Besides, it can also refer to the metaphorical act of climbing or reaching one's goal or full potential.

It 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 rocking climbing, either in an outdoor or indoor atmosphere, you can use 🧗 in the caption.
Apart from the actual act of rock climbing, you can also use 🧗 in motivational quotes and inspirational captions too. For example, if you're posting a picture of yourself, you can add a caption like "Do all that it takes 🧗".
You can also use 🧗 while posting about outdoor adventure sports. For instance, if yours is a social media page that shares info on outdoor sports, you can use 🧗 in post captions while sharing about rock climbing or mountaineering.
🧗 can also be used in the context of advising about rock climbing, like the best climbing shoes, health tips before climbing, etc.
If you and your buddies are discussing some weekend adventure, and you're pitching in the idea of rock climbing, you can use 🧗in that conversation too.

Other Names

🧗 Rock Climbing
🧗 Person Rock Climbing
🧗 Mountaineering
🧗 Mountain Climbing
🧗 Scaling
🧗 Bouldering
🧗 Alpinism
🧗 Climbing
🧗 Climbing Sport

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-activity
Codepoints: U+1F9D7
Emoji version: Emoji 5.0
Shortcodes: :climbing: GitHub:person_climbing: Slack · Discord
Keywords: climb, climber, climbing, mountain, person, rock, scale, up

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.