A man on a surfboard catching a wave. It carries the same surf and beach meaning as ๐.
Men use it for their own sessions, surf reports, and coastal road trips. It also suits a laid-back, easygoing tone, as in โjust ๐โโ๏ธ through the weekโ, and pairs with ๐ค for a classic surfer vibe.
Facts
Man surfing ๐โโ๏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 ๐ person surfing 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 :surfing_man: or :man_surfing:. People also look for it with words like โbeachโ, โmanโ, โoceanโ, or โsportโ.