⛸Ice Skate Emoji
Generally, the ⛸ emoji means ice skating or anything related to skating. People use it to represent the activity itself, or to convey a feeling of coolness or movement.
The ⛸ emoji represents an ice skate.
- Unicode
- U+26F8
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :ice_skate:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ⛸ Ice Skate emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
Ice Skate emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+26F8. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 8.
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.
Ice Skate emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :ice_skate:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the ice skate, code point U+26F8.
How to type the ⛸ Ice Skate emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+26F8 when there is no key at all.
Ice Skate emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the ice skate as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 8 of them.
Ice Skate emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around ice skate 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: Ice Skate
Code: U+26F8 · added 2014
Shortcode: :ice_skate:
Generally, the ⛸ emoji means ice skating or anything related to skating.
Unicode name: Ice Hockey
Code: U+1F3D2 · added 2015
Shortcode: :ice_hockey_stick_and_puck:
Generally, the 🏒 emoji just means ice hockey.
Where the ⛸ Ice Skate emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+26F8 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.
Ice Skate was approved as U+26F8 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.