🤼People Wrestling Emoji
Generally, the 🤼 emoji means wrestling. People use it to talk about the sport, or to describe a difficult situation where you're battling something.
The 🤼 emoji represents a wrestler.
- Unicode
- U+1F93C
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :wrestlers:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🤼 People Wrestling emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 8 of them.
People Wrestling emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F93C. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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.
People Wrestling emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :wrestlers:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the people wrestling, code point U+1F93C.
How to type the 🤼 People Wrestling emoji
No picker to hand? The people wrestling can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
People Wrestling 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.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
People Wrestling emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around people wrestling 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🤼 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the people wrestling lands changes how it is taken.
🤼 vs 🤼♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: People Wrestling
Code: U+1F93C · added 2016
Shortcode: :wrestlers:
Generally, the 🤼 emoji means wrestling.
Unicode name: Women Wrestling
Code: U+1F93C U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :woman-wrestling:
Basically, it means “female wrestler.
Where the 🤼 People Wrestling emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 3.0, the people wrestling has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 10.
Same character every time — U+1F93C 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.
People Wrestling was approved as U+1F93C 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.