Someone rides a wave low on a board, arms spread for balance, wetsuit and all, a picture that covers surfing at any skill level. It also gets borrowed for beach trips, vacation posts, and the general feeling of summer even when nobody's near an ocean.
What 🏄 means
Dressed in full surfer's gear, this gender-neutral rider grips the board in a low stance, hands spread wide for balance, legs bent slightly.
The 🏄 Person Surfing emoji refers to any surfer irrespective of the level of aptitude, gender, and sex. This emoji signifies adventure, water sports, vacation, summertime excitement, and an overall beachy vibe.
It is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.
How and when to use it
- Use 🏄 in the caption or tweeting while posting or tweeting picture(s) and/or video(s) of yourself surfing.
- If you found an awe-striking surfing picture or video that you're now reposting, retweeting, or posting on your social media story, you can use 🏄 in those contexts.
- Apart from actually surfing, 🏄 can be used even while posting beach pictures. It can be pictures of beaches you've been to or some exotic and soul-capturing images that you came across on social media.
- Tag the 🏄 emoji into captions while posting surfing memes or even fails (not the brutal ones, of course, because those don't deserve social media trolls).
- If you're a professional surfer or you love surfing irrespective of the number of times you've slipped, you can use 🏄 in your social media profile name.
- If its a lazy and boring day and all you're doing is 'surfing' the internet, then you can use 🏄 while asking someone what they're up to and finding that opportunity to complain about your day.
- You can also use 🏄 as a way of greeting someone (waving, you know). Like "Yoo. Whaddup 🏄".
Other Names
- 🏄 Gender-Neutral Surfer
- 🏄 Surfing
- 🏄 Water Sports
- 🏄 Water Adventure Sport
- 🏄 Riding the Waves
- 🏄 Surf Riding
- 🏄 Gender-Neutral Surf Rider
- 🏄 Browsing
- 🏄 Waving
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › person-sport
- Codepoints
U+1F3C4- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:surfer::person_surfing:Discord- Keywords
- beach, ocean, person, sport, surf, surfer, surfing, swell, waves
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.
Skin tone variations
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🏄 Person Surfing or 🇮🇶 Flag: Iraq?
Runs with a crowd
🏄 keeps company in sports emojis and summer emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.