🚣

Person Rowing Boat Emoji 🚣

Someone sits low in a small boat, gripping both oars mid-stroke, a stand-in for rowing, canoeing, and kayaking without distinguishing between them. It's reached for on a lake trip, a fishing outing, or just paddling somewhere under your own power.

What 🚣 means

Sitting in a boat in comfortable, practical clothes, this gender-neutral character grips the oars with both hands in a forward-rowing posture.

The 🚣 Person Rowing Boat emoji refers to any person who rows a boat irrespective of gender and sex. It can signify boat sports such as kayaking, canoeing, boating, rowing, fishing, and sailing.

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 or video of you indulging in some adventurous boat sports such as kayaking and canoeing, you can use 🚣 in the caption.
If yours is a brand that provides boating opportunities, facilities, and other such related information, you can use 🚣 in the captions while posting such info on your social media handle. To better identify yourself, you can also use this emoji in your social media profile name.
If you experienced the most romantic boating time with your partner in a canal or any water body and you're posting those memories or tweeting about them, you can use 🚣 in those contexts.
🚣 can also be used to refer to a particular culture or country that uses waterways or boats the most. For example, if you're sharing a festive post about your culture that has tons of boating options or uses a boat ride as the primary mode of transport, you can use 🚣 in that post caption.
You can also use 🚣 while reposting or retweeting a post that has a boat in it - it can be an adventurous kayaking post or even a serious post about floods in a particular place, so much that the affected had to use cardboard as a boat to move around.
If you're going fishing and you're either texting someone about it or making a post or story out of it, you can use 🚣 in that context as well.

Other Names

🚣 Boating
🚣 Boat Ride
🚣 Gender-Neutral Person Rowing a Boat
🚣 Kayaking
🚣 Canoeing
🚣 Boat Riding
🚣 Fishing
🚣 Sailing
🚣 Rowing

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-sport
Codepoints: U+1F6A3
Emoji version: Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes: :rowboat::person_rowing_boat: Discord
Keywords: boat, canoe, cruise, fishing, lake, oar, paddle, person, raft, river, row, rowboat, rowing

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.