What ๐โโ๏ธ means
A man sprinting, used for jogging, races and being in a hurry.
It suits morning runs, marathon training and gym posts. In texts it means โon my way, fastโ, or a joking escape from blame, like ๐โโ๏ธ๐จ when someone asks who broke the vase. Some use it for chasing a goal, or a bus.
Facts
Man running ๐โโ๏ธ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person activity. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. It is a sequence that joins ๐ person running 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 :running_man: or :man_running:. People also look for it with words like โfastโ, โhurryโ, โmanโ, or โmarathonโ.
Made of
๐+โ๏ธ=๐โโ๏ธ
Timeline
- 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 4.0)
- 2016Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 4.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2019
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
2019
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
people & body ยท Emoji 4.0