🏄‍♂️man surfing
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Commonly confused with

ZWJ Sequence

Man surfing

Surfer vs man surfing; again, same action with gender change only.

Man surfing
Woman surfing

Woman surfing vs man surfing; both depict surfing without meaningful semantic difference.

Variants

Skin tones
Man surfing
Man surfing: light skin tone
Man surfing: medium-light skin tone
Man surfing: medium skin tone
Man surfing: medium-dark skin tone
Man surfing: dark skin tone

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Man surfing” was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 4.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ beach + ocean + sport + surf + surfer + swell + waves

In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- man surfing

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ man surfing

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ man + surfing

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