People & Body · Emoji 1.0
🚣Person Rowing Boat Emoji
Generally, the 🚣 emoji means someone is actively working, enjoying a physical activity, or just feeling peaceful and focused. It’s often used to convey a sense of rhythm or movement.
The 🚣 emoji represents a person rowing a small boat.
- Unicode
- U+1F6A3
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :rowboat:
- Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🚣 Person Rowing Boat emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 13.
02 — Platforms
Person Rowing Boat emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F6A3. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Person Rowing Boat emoji skin tones
🚣 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Person Rowing Boat emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :rowboat:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F6A3.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🚣 Person Rowing Boat emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F6A3 when there is no key at all.
06 — Download
Person Rowing Boat emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the person rowing boat 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
07 — Combinations
Person Rowing Boat emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person rowing boat 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 for every pair Google has drawn, 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Apps
What 🚣 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F6A3, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
🚣 vs 🏋️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Person Rowing Boat
Code: U+1F6A3 · added 2015
Shortcode: :rowboat:
Generally, the 🚣 emoji means someone is actively working, enjoying a physical activity, or just feeling peaceful and focused.
Unicode name: Person Lifting Weights
Code: U+1F3CB U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :weight_lifter:
Generally, it just means someone is talking about working out or being physically strong.
12 — History
Where the 🚣 Person Rowing Boat emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F6A3 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.
Person Rowing Boat was approved as U+1F6A3 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.
13 — FAQ