🤸Person Cartwheeling Emoji
Generally, the 🤸 emoji means someone is feeling energetic, happy, or excited about something. It’s often used to show you’re having fun or are celebrating a small victory.
The 🤸 emoji shows a person cartwheeling.
- Unicode
- U+1F938
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :person_doing_cartwheel:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🤸 Person Cartwheeling emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Person Cartwheeling emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F938 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your person cartwheeling looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Person Cartwheeling emoji skin tones
🤸 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Person Cartwheeling emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :person_doing_cartwheel:.
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+1F938.
How to type the 🤸 Person Cartwheeling emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Person Cartwheeling emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the person cartwheeling 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
Person Cartwheeling emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person cartwheeling 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
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.
🤸 vs 🏋️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Person Cartwheeling
Code: U+1F938 · added 2016
Shortcode: :person_doing_cartwheel:
Generally, the 🤸 emoji means someone is feeling energetic, happy, or excited about something.
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.
Where the 🤸 Person Cartwheeling emoji came from
It arrived with the 3.0 release of the standard, which dates the person cartwheeling to 2016.
Same character every time — U+1F938 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 Cartwheeling was approved as U+1F938 and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). 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.