Four wheels under a deck built more for tricks than for actually getting somewhere fast. It's used for skate culture and casual 'rolling through' vibes, standing in for that specific mix of effortless cool and controlled chaos that comes with rolling somewhere instead of just walking there like everyone else.
What 🛹 means
A flat, rectangular board with a black covering, rounded in the corners, and attached to two pairs of wheels. The 🛹 Skateboard emoji signifies skateboarding; either for leisure or a league. It suggests youth, balance, and skill.
How and when to use it
- If you're thinking of the perfect answer to the "So, how's it going?" or "How's life?" small talk, here's your magical reply! Use 🛹 in the response to indicate "Nothing much. Just skating through life 🛹".
- A skateboard can signify a sense of being young, able, and healthy. So, if the picture you're posting needs to have a caption that resonates with any of these concepts, you could use 🛹 - "Young, wild and free 🛹".
- While posting or reposting videos of skateboarding stunts, competitions or just the first time you and your gang skated through the neighborhood, use 🛹 in the caption.
- If you're a frequent skateboarder, you could use 🛹 as a reply to "What's poppin?".
- If you're sharing pictures of your skateboard and/or of you skateboarding or with your skateboarding homies, use 🛹 in the caption.
Other Names
- 🛹 Skateboarding
- 🛹 Skating
- 🛹 Skate
- 🛹 Board
- 🛹 Skateboarder
- 🛹 Skating Board
- 🛹 Sidewalk Surfin
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › transport-ground
- Codepoints
U+1F6F9- Emoji version
- Emoji 11.0
- Shortcodes
:skateboard:- Keywords
- board, skate, skateboard, skater, wheels
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🛹 Skateboard or 🍋 Lemon?