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Racing Car Emoji 🏎️

Low-slung and open-cockpit, built for one speed only — the racing car is Formula-style and unmistakable. It's used for actual motorsport content and for going full-send at something — a fast finish, a sprint to a deadline, or just moving with way more urgency than the situation strictly requires.

What 🏎️ means

A low-laying red car facing towards the left, built with a steep bonnet attached to a front wing, two pairs of wheels, a cockpit for the driver, and a rear wing that would rise above the seated driver.

The 🏎️ Racing Car emoji signifies a car race and a car racer. It suggests speed, adrenaline rush, and tact on one side and a sense of exhilaration, excitement, and bracing oneself on the other (quite literally speaking).

How and when to use it

If you're rushing somewhere; a meeting, a game, a date, anything, you could use 🏎️ to suggest that whatever you're doing, you're doing it at an ungodly speed.
If someone or something lends your heart or mind to race, you can use 🏎️ to signify that feeling (although both these cases suggest mental disturbances and disorders, this use case only refers to a casual context). For example, "I just couldn't do it. He walked up to me and my heart went 🏎️".
Or
"All these racing thoughts 🏎️ and yet I don't know what I think of you".
🏎️ can also be used to indicate a sense of competition. Like, "Oh really? Let's see who wakes up before the other tomorrow 🏎️".
If someone tells you about something exciting that you just cannot wait for, you can use 🏎️. For instance, "Oh wowwww! Dessert for dinner! I'm in🏎️".

Other Names

🏎️ Car Race
🏎️ Car Racer
🏎️ Formula 1
🏎️ Racer's Car
🏎️ Car Racing
🏎️ Modified Car
🏎️ Stock Car
🏎️ Souped-up Car
🏎️ Dragster
🏎️ Speedster

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › transport-ground
Codepoints: U+1F3CE U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.7
Shortcodes: :racing_car: GitHub
Keywords: car, racing, zoom

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.