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Meaning & usage
What does the Skateboard emoji mean?
A skateboard, for skating, street culture and getting around.
Youthful and casual. It belongs to a subculture with its own visual language.
How to use 🛹 naturally
Skate clips, park photos and city transport.
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 🛹
- 2018
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Skateboard was first defined as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. The first release under the current annual numbering.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2018 seen from above at an angle, with the trucks visible underneath. Showing the underside was necessary, since a board from directly above is a rounded rectangle.
- Today
How its use evolved
Skate clips, park photos and city transport.
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.
Landed it on the ninth try 🛹
Park was packed all evening 🛹
Faster than the bus, most days 🛹
When to use it
Using 🛹 clearly
Skate clips, park photos and city transport. It lands as skateboard 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 skateboard emoji
What does 🛹 mean in a text message?
A skateboard, for skating, street culture and getting around. Youthful and casual. It belongs to a subculture with its own visual language.
Is 🛹 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are skateboard emoji, 🛹 meaning, skating emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🛹 look different on another device?
U+1F6F9 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 skateboard 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 skateboard emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🛹 as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. 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+1F6F9 | 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 | \1F6F9 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F6F9} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%9B%B9 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F6F9
- Category
- Activities & Play
- Also known as
- skateboard emoji🛹 meaningskating emoji
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