People & Body · Emoji 5.0
🧗Person Climbing Emoji
Generally, 🧗 means someone is facing a challenge or achieving something difficult. It’s often used to express excitement about a new adventure or to acknowledge someone's determination.
The 🧗 emoji shows a person climbing.
- Unicode
- U+1F9D7
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :person_
climbing: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧗 Person Climbing emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Person Climbing emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the person climbing as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Person Climbing 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 Climbing emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :person_climbing:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the person climbing, code point U+1F9D7.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🧗 Person Climbing emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F9D7 when there is no key at all.
06 — Download
Person Climbing emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the person climbing 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 Climbing emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person climbing 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 climbing 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+1F9D7, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — Related
Emojis similar to the Person Climbing emoji
Same family (person-activity) — often confused with person climbing or used alongside it.
People & Body →
Person Walking Facing Right
Woman Walking Facing Right
Man Walking Facing Right
Person Kneeling Facing Right
Collections 🧗 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
11 — Difference
🧗 vs 🏃 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Person Climbing
Code: U+1F9D7 · added 2017
Shortcode: :person_climbing:
Generally, 🧗 means someone is facing a challenge or achieving something difficult.
Unicode name: Person Running
Code: U+1F3C3 · added 2010
Shortcode: :runner:
Generally, 🏃 means someone is running or moving quickly.
12 — History
Where the 🧗 Person Climbing emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 5.0, the person climbing has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 9.
Same character every time — U+1F9D7 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 Climbing was approved as U+1F9D7 and shipped in Emoji 5.0 (2017). 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