People wrestling

Two people grappling. It means wrestling as a sport, and in chat it often means a playful scuffle or a fight over something.

Friends use it for sibling squabbles, fighting over the last slice, or “come at me” banter. Fans use it for school wrestling, grappling in mixed martial arts, and pro wrestling nights.

Facts

People wrestling 🤼 is an emoji in the people and body category, under person sport. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. It comes in 25 skin tone combinations, one tone for each person. 2 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :wrestling: or :people_wrestling:. People also look for it with words like “combat”, “duel”, “grapple”, or “people”.

Timeline

1. 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 3.0)
2. 20162 new emoji built from it (Emoji 4.0)🤼‍♂️🤼‍♀️
3. 2025Skin tones added (Emoji 17.0)
4. 2025Mixed skin tones added, one tone per person (Emoji 17.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body · Emoji 3.0