⛷Skier Emoji
Generally, the ⛷ emoji means skiing or winter sports. People use it to talk about going to the mountains or enjoying snowy activities.
The ⛷ emoji shows a pair of skis.
- Unicode
- U+26F7
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :skier:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ⛷ Skier emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
Skier emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the skier as 8 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
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.
Skier 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 :skier:.
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+26F7.
How to type the ⛷ Skier emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+26F7 when there is no key at all.
Skier emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 8. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Skier emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around skier 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
Chat apps do not change U+26F7, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the ⛷ Skier emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 0.7, the skier has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 12.
Same character every time — U+26F7 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.
Skier was approved as U+26F7 and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). 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, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.