Person lifting weights: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A person shown mid-lift, bracing a heavy barbell above their shoulders. This emoji captures the tension of a clean-and-jerk or snatch movement, focusing on the strain and physical exertion required to move heavy iron.

Usage Context

Used to signal that someone is hitting the gym, training for a sport, or pushing through a difficult personal challenge. It is the go-to icon for fitness progress updates and is frequently paired with 💪 to celebrate strength or 🏃 to denote an active lifestyle.

History

Introduced in Unicode 7.0 in 2014, this emoji was added to support the growing popularity of fitness tracking and the mainstream rise of powerlifting and CrossFit culture in digital spaces. Skin tone modifiers were later enabled in 2015 to allow users to represent their own physical identity.

Details

Glyph

🏋🏼

Unicode

U+1F3CB U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3cb_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFCB;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-sport

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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