🎮
What 🎮 means
A typical black video game controller with two handles, a pair of similar button hubs at the top, a tiny red button in between, and two smaller but equally round buttons below the described design.
The 🎮 Video Game emoji represents gaming and the gamer, of course. Apart from just leisure and pass time, this emoji could also signify skills, knowledge, coordination, indulgence, and passion as well.
How and when to use it
- If you're a gamer, 🎮 is a must in your social media bio or even profile name.
- You can also send 🎮 to indicate that you're gaming for the next 18 hours and hence mustn't be disturbed under any circumstance.
- While sharing posts or reposts on gaming news, latest updates, new video game releases, anything newsworthy related to the field of video gaming, you can use 🎮 in the caption.
- Use 🎮 while asking your buddy to join you for a game or to rejoin because he/she ditched in between. Like, "Yo, COME BACK! 🎮" or "You can run but you cannot hide, buddy. You LET ME DIE! 🎮".
- Even while sharing links to live gaming streams, a game review you wrote or a repost of the same, a video link to the best games, etc, you can use 🎮 in the caption.
Other Names
- 🎮 Gaming
- 🎮 Gamer
- 🎮 Video Game Controller
- 🎮 Gamepad
- 🎮 Play Station
- 🎮 Wii U
- 🎮 Xbox
The lowdown
- Category
- Activities › game
- Codepoints
U+1F3AE- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:video_game:- Keywords
- controller, entertainment, game, video
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🎮 Video Game or 🧪 Test Tube?
Runs with a crowd
🎮 keeps company in cool emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.