Person climbing

What 🧗 means

A person scaling a rock wall with hands and feet. It means rock climbing and bouldering, and by extension any hard climb toward a goal.

Climbers use it for gym sessions, outdoor routes, and brags about finally sending a problem, with 💪 close by. As a metaphor it describes working up from the bottom, a tough week, or an uphill task: “still 🧗 through my inbox.”

Facts

Person climbing 🧗 is an emoji in the people and body category, under person activity. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. 2 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :climbing: or :person_climbing:. People also look for it with words like “climb”, “climber”, “climbing”, or “mountain”.

Timeline

1. 2017Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 5.0)
2. 2017Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 5.0)
3. 20172 new emoji built from it (Emoji 5.0)🧗‍♂️🧗‍♀️

Design history

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

people & body · Emoji 5.0