Man lifting weights: light skin tone Emoji
People
A man with light skin shown mid-lift, bracing his core while hoisting a barbell weighted with large plates over his head. The image captures a classic overhead press or snatch technique used in competitive strength training.
Usage Context
This emoji serves as a shorthand for hitting the gym, documenting fitness progress, or discussing heavy lifting. It is frequently sent as motivation for someone else's workout or to brag about a personal best. It often appears alongside 💪 to emphasize strength or 🏋️ to represent the general activity.
History
The base lifter emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. The capability to modify this character with skin tones arrived in 2015, as part of the push to make human-based emojis more inclusive and representative of the global digital population.
Details
Glyph
🏋🏻♂
Unicode
U+1F3CB U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f3cb_1f3fb_200d_2642:
HTML Entity
����‍♂
Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory person-sport
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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