Man climbing: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A figure of a man with medium skin tone wearing athletic gear and scaling a vertical rock face or climbing wall. The emoji features the climber with arms and legs extended, mid-ascent on a textured surface.

Usage Context

Used to represent outdoor adventures, rock climbing hobbies, or the general metaphor of overcoming a steep challenge. It is frequently sent alongside ⛰️ or 🧗 to describe weekend hiking trips or personal goals that require significant physical effort.

History

This emoji was added in Unicode 10.0 in 2017. It joined the growing library of gender-inclusive and skin-tone-variant emojis, reflecting a shift toward representing diverse recreational activities and individual physical pursuits in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

🧗🏽‍♂

Unicode

U+1F9D7 U+1F3FD U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d7_1f3fd_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD7;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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