Person Lifting Weights Emoji
A figure holding a loaded barbell overhead, the standard gym emoji.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Person Lifting Weights emoji mean?
A figure holding a loaded barbell overhead, the standard gym emoji.
Effortful. It covers actual training and, figuratively, anything that took more work than it should have.
How to use 🏋️ naturally
Training, the gym and anything requiring effort.
Activity emoji name what is happening rather than how anyone feels about it. They work as compact labels for plans, results and hobbies, which is why invitations and announcements lean on them so heavily.
From standard to slang
The history of 🏋️
- 2014
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Person Lifting Weights was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.7, dated 2014. Another retrospective label, covering characters recognised as emoji in 2014.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A figure with a barbell locked out overhead. It was encoded as a sport rather than as exercise, which is why the plates are drawn as competition discs.
- Today
How its use evolved
Training, the gym and anything requiring effort.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🏋️ in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Back at it after three weeks off 🏋️
Leg day and I regret everything 🏋️
That deploy took more out of me than the gym 🏋️
When to use it
Using 🏋️ clearly
Training, the gym and anything requiring effort. It lands as gym emoji or 🏋️ meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the person lifting weights emoji
What does 🏋️ mean in a text message?
A figure holding a loaded barbell overhead, the standard gym emoji. Effortful. It covers actual training and, figuratively, anything that took more work than it should have.
Is 🏋️ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are gym emoji, 🏋️ meaning, weightlifting emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🏋️ look different on another device?
U+1F3CB U+FE0F identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the person lifting weights emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🏋️ is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the person lifting weights emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🏋️ as emoji in Emoji 0.7, dated 2014. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🏋️ in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F3CB U+FE0F | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🏋️ | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🏋️ | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F3CB \FE0F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3CB}\u{FE0F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8F%8B%EF%B8%8F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F3CB U+FE0F
- Category
- Activities & Play
- Also known as
- gym emoji🏋️ meaningweightlifting emoji
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