People & Body · Emoji 1.0
🚵Person Mountain Biking Emoji
Generally, it just means someone is talking about mountain biking or cycling. It’s a quick way to show you enjoy that activity.
The 🚵 emoji shows a person riding a mountain bike.
- Unicode
- U+1F6B5
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :mountain_
bicyclist: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🚵 Person Mountain Biking emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 10.
02 — Platforms
Person Mountain Biking emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the person mountain biking has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Person Mountain Biking 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 Mountain Biking 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 :mountain_bicyclist:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the person mountain biking, code point U+1F6B5.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🚵 Person Mountain Biking emoji
No picker to hand? The person mountain biking can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Person Mountain Biking emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
07 — Combinations
Person Mountain Biking emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person mountain biking 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
Who sent the person mountain biking and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 🚵 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F6B5, 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 Mountain Biking
Code: U+1F6B5 · added 2015
Shortcode: :mountain_bicyclist:
Generally, it just means someone is talking about mountain biking or cycling.
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 Mountain Biking emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the person mountain biking has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F6B5 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 Mountain Biking was approved as U+1F6B5 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