A man rowing a small boat. The meaning matches ๐ฃ: rowing, paddling, and boating.
Men use it for fishing trips, canoe outings and rowing-team updates, often with ๐ฃ or ๐. Rowers also post it after crew practice or an indoor rowing session, and it suits a calm day on a lake or river.
Facts
Man rowing boat ๐ฃโโ๏ธ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person sport. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. It is a sequence that joins ๐ฃ person rowing boat and โ๏ธ male sign. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :rowing_man: or :man_rowing_boat:. People also look for it with words like โboatโ, โcanoeโ, โcruiseโ, or โfishingโ.