Activities · Emoji 0.6
🎿Skis Emoji
Generally, the 🎿 emoji means skis. It’s a straightforward way to indicate a love for winter sports or a snowy environment.
The 🎿 emoji represents skis.
- Unicode
- U+1F3BF
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :ski:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🎿 Skis emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Skis emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the skis as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Skis emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :ski:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the skis, code point U+1F3BF.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🎿 Skis emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F3BF when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Skis emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the skis as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
JoyPixels
06 — Combinations
Skis emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around skis for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🎿, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🎿 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the skis and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 🎿 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
11 — History
Where the 🎿 Skis emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F3BF never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🎿 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E657, KDDI au EAAC, SoftBank E013.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Skis was approved as U+1F3BF and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🎿 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ