👟Running Shoe Emoji
Generally, 👟 means someone is referencing sneakers or has been involved in running or athletic activities. It’s often used casually to talk about shoes or fitness.
The 👟 emoji represents a running shoe.
- Unicode
- U+1F45F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :athletic_shoe:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 👟 Running Shoe emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as tennis emoji.
Running Shoe emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the running shoe as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Running Shoe emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :athletic_shoe:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the running shoe, code point U+1F45F.
How to type the 👟 Running Shoe emoji
No picker to hand? The running shoe can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Running Shoe emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the running shoe as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Running Shoe emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around running shoe for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
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.
What 👟 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the running shoe and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 👟 means in other countries
Reads as fitness or casual footwear everywhere, and doubles as a nod to global sneaker culture in style-focused chat.
Literal exercise or running reference, straightforward in any fitness chat.
Signals collecting or status around sneaker releases, big in the US and East Asia.
Before you send it: Fine for both workout plans and sneaker talk — context sorts out which one you mean.
What 👟 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F45F, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
👟 vs 👞 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Running Shoe
Code: U+1F45F · added 2010
Shortcode: :athletic_shoe:
Generally, 👟 means someone is referencing sneakers or has been involved in running or athletic activities.
Unicode name: Man’s Shoe
Code: U+1F45E · added 2010
Shortcode: :mans_shoe:
Generally, the 👞 emoji just means a shoe.
Where the 👟 Running Shoe 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+1F45F 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 E699, KDDI au EB2B, SoftBank E007.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Running Shoe was approved as U+1F45F 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.