Man running facing right: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A figure of a man in motion, depicted mid-stride with his arms bent at the elbows as if sprinting. This specific version features a medium-light skin tone and an arrow indicating forward momentum.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to choice for signaling urgency, high-speed travel, or the completion of a workout like a marathon. It is frequently used in texts to tell friends you are on your way or to describe a busy, fast-paced schedule. It pairs naturally with other fitness-related icons like 🏃 or 🏁.

History

The running figure has been part of the standard emoji set since Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The option to modify the skin tone was added later in 2015 to better represent the global diversity of the people using these platforms, while the specific male-gendered modifier was introduced in the Emoji 4.0 update in 2016.

Details

Glyph

🏃🏼‍♂‍➡

Unicode

U+1F3C3 U+1F3FC U+200D U+2642 U+200D U+27A1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3c3_1f3fc_200d_2642_200d_27a1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFC3;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍♂‍➡

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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