Man running facing right Emoji

People

A figure of a man in motion, depicted in profile, captured mid-stride while moving toward the right. The character is shown with bent limbs and a forward-leaning posture to signal high-speed movement.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent exercise, fitness, or the literal act of running a marathon. It also serves as a quick way to express that someone is in a rush, running late, or physically moving toward a goal. It is often used alongside 💨 to emphasize speed or 🏃‍♀️ to represent a group of runners.

History

While the base runner character was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the specific male-gendered sequence was added later as part of the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence standard to allow for more granular representation of individuals in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

🏃‍♂‍➡

Unicode

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

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3c3_200d_2642_200d_27a1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFC3;‍♂‍➡

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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