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Shorts Emoji 🩳

A pair of casual shorts, the emoji represents warm-weather, low-effort dressing. It's used for summer outfits, gym sessions, and lounging around, sitting at the relaxed end of the wardrobe next to jeans and dresses on the dressier end.

What 🩳 means

A pair of yellow bermudas, seemingly made of jersey material, designed with a white border at the edges of both legs and the two ends of a red rope hanging from the crunched waistband.

The 🩳 Shorts emoji is another emoji in the emoji list representing casual or even summer wear, irrespective of gender, that is. It may suggest leisure, vacation, or just going out for any laid-back occasion.

How and when to use it

A pair of shorts may also refer to an elementary boy's school uniform, and many times this could signify naivety and innocence. So, if you're bringing this kind of description into any context, you may use 🩳. For example, "Man up, boi. You're no longer in school 🩳".
Did you just make an impromptu swim plan? Or are you pestering your buddies of that one plan that's being stretched for the past 5 years? In such cases, use 🩳. Like, "Let's go for a nice, mindless swim!! 🩳".
Are you posting a social media story/post of someone who's just chilling and gaming on the couch like there's no tomorrow? Then, use 🩳. For instance, "My woman's been gaming for the past 48 hours 🩳. Someone please send help".
If you're sharing a social media status or texting someone of your summer scene, use 🩳 - "Summer's FINALLY here!! And so are my airy clothes! 🩳".

Other Names

🩳 Bermudas
🩳 A Pair of Shorts
🩳 Short Pants
🩳 Half Pant
🩳 Boxers
🩳 Uniform Pants
🩳 Jersey Shorts

🩳 in real conversations

What does 🩳 actually mean — gym shorts or swim trunks?

Either, honestly, and context decides — 🩳 gets used for casual summer shorts, workout gear, and swim trunks about equally, since the design is generic enough to cover all three. A caption about the gym reads it as athletic wear; a beach photo reads the exact same emoji as swimwear. There's no separate glyph for the different uses.

Why does 🩳 show up so much in summer captions?

Because shorts are the default warm-weather uniform — 🩳 pairs naturally with heat, vacation, and anything too hot for real pants. It reads as relaxed and low-effort compared to 👖, roughly 'it's too warm to care about looking put-together' in glyph form. Expect it in beach-day, backyard-barbecue, and heatwave posts alike.

Is 🩳 used for anything besides literal shorts?

Not really — it stays close to home, describing an actual garment rather than picking up slang meaning the way some clothing emoji do. About the only figurative use is a joke about someone being underdressed or caught off guard, 'shorts weather' standing in for summer arriving whether anyone's ready for it or not.

The lowdown

Category: Objects › clothing
Codepoints: U+1FA73
Emoji version: Emoji 12.0
Shortcodes: :shorts:
Keywords: bathing, pants, shorts, suit, swimsuit, underwear

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.