Person climbing emoji 🧗
🧗 is the person climbing: a figure gripping a rock face, one leg raised. It means rock climbing and bouldering — gym sessions, outdoor routes, “sent my first V4” — and…
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What the person climbing 🧗 emoji means
🧗 is the person climbing: a figure gripping a rock face, one leg raised. It means rock climbing and bouldering — gym sessions, outdoor routes, “sent my first V4” — and figuratively climbing anything: the ranks, a mountain of work, out of a hole. 🧗♀️ woman climbing and 🧗♂️ man climbing are the gendered forms; all take skin tones. Added in Emoji 5.0 (2017). For hiking rather than climbing use 🥾 hiking boot and ⛰️ mountain.
Unicode name: person climbing · U+1F9D7 · Emoji 5.0 (2017) · group: People & Body.
How people use it
- Climbing: bouldering, sport routes, gyms
- Mountains: summits, expeditions
- Metaphor: climbing the ladder, uphill battles
- Olympics: sport climbing
Compare the options
| Emoji | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| person climbingU+1F9D7 | Climbing | |
| woman climbingU+1F9D7 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F | Female version | |
| man climbingU+1F9D7 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F | Male version | |
| mountainU+26F0 U+FE0F | The mountain | |
| hiking bootU+1F97E | Hiking | |
| compassU+1F9ED | Navigation |
Questions people ask
What does 🧗 mean?
Rock climbing — or, figuratively, climbing toward a goal.
Is there a bouldering emoji?
🧗 covers bouldering and roped climbing alike.
Why do some people search “scale symbol” for 🧗?
Unicode’s keywords for the emoji include “scale”, as in scaling a wall, so it appears in searches for that word.
About this guide
Written and maintained by the Emoji Directory editorial team, without ads or sponsorship. Meanings describe how the emoji is commonly used in public posts and messages, not an official definition. Names, code points, versions, keywords and translations come from the Unicode Emoji 18.0 and CLDR data; shortcodes from the gemoji project. Last reviewed . Spotted a mistake or a new usage? Tell us, or read how the directory is made.
