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Repeat Button Emoji 🔁

A closed loop of two curved arrows, the icon for repeat mode on a media player, where a finished queue starts back over rather than stopping. That whole-playlist loop is the difference from 🔂 Repeat Single Button's one-track version, and people type it for anything stuck on replay, a routine, an argument circling back around.

What 🔁 means

A clockwise design of a ➡️ Right Arrow and a ⬅️ Left Arrow placed parallel to each other in a horizontal plane. The 🔁 Repeat Button signifies playlist repetition, listening to an entire playlist on loop, and memorizing the order.

How and when to use it

Although 🔁 is the horizontal version of the 🔃 Clockwise Vertical Arrows and they are quite similar in function, the former refers only to playlists whereas the latter could suggest individual videos too.
A sweet consequence of playing or listening to a playlist on repeat or on 'loop' is a great memory! You begin memorizing the order, which could be translated into patterns or your ability to "figure it out".
Examples for the previous point - "After a point, you just see through and within a person's routine 🔁" or "I lived with them for so long that even when I'm not with them, I know exactly what's going on 🔁".
Repeating a playlist is evidence that it is indeed your FAV playlist. Be it your work playlist, workout playlist, a playlist for physical intimacy, you could use 🔁 to indicate the same before 'hitting it'. Like, "Gonna jam with my work music and get to it now 🔁".

Other Names

🔁 Repeat Button
🔁 Repeat Tracks
🔁 Repeat Playlist
🔁 Playlist on Loop
🔁 Loop Symbol
🔁 Retweet
🔁 Repetitive
🔁 Exhaustive
🔁 Obsession

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › av-symbol
Codepoints: U+1F501
Emoji version: Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes: :repeat:
Keywords: arrow, button, clockwise, repeat

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.