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horse racing

Horse Racing

🏇 shows a jockey crouched on a galloping racehorse. People send it for race days, famous derbies, track bets and general horseback riding, or as playful shorthand for rushing—sprinting toward a deadline, heading out the door fast, or charging into a busy week. Unlike the plain horse emoji, this one shows a rider in the saddle.

EmojiSince 2015

Choose a version

6 versions

skin tone

What 🏇 means

It means a day at the races, riding, or moving fast.

In literal use, it covers everything around the track: watching a big race or race meeting like the Kentucky Derby, Royal Ascot or the Melbourne Cup, dressing up for a race meet, placing a bet on a horse, or going horseback riding for the afternoon. Unicode has no separate trail-riding or show-jumping emoji, so this jockey sometimes gets borrowed for riding in general.

In everyday chat, the galloping rider stands in for speed and urgency. Someone texting that they are "on the way 🏇" or finishing a project "at a full gallop" is just saying they are hurrying or charging ahead.

Part of collections

What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings

Watching the races, visiting the track, or placing a bet on a horse.

Don't confuse it with

🐴

Horse Face

Horse face only: the animal itself, with no rider or race.

Combination ideas

past the finish line, a photo finish

placing a bet on race day

Derby day: big hats and horse races

winner of the race

Repeated for race-day excitement, as in a 2016 Derby wish-list post, or flat-out speed.

Galloping off in a hurry or heading out the door fast.

Worth knowing

When Unicode unified Japanese phone carriers' emoji in 2009, three carriers' horse pictures were grouped here, even though SoftBank's showed no rider at all. Unicode kept this character for the mounted jockey.

Questions people ask

Does the skin tone change the horse?

No. The skin-tone modifier colors only the jockey. On many phones the rider is so covered by racing gear that little skin shows, and the five tones can look nearly identical on small screens.

Are there separate man and woman jockey emoji?

No. 🏇 has skin-tone variants but no man or woman versions; the single rider figure serves for any jockey.

Collections with 🏇

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QMam Language Alphabet78 symbols

How to type or find 🏇

Search it as: jockey · derby · racehorse · racetrack · equestrian · gallop · betting · horse race
Type it as: :horse_racing:
Around since: 2015 · Emoji 1.0
Shows up on: Every phone · iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux

Windows

⊞Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “horse racing”.

macOS

⌃Control+⌘Command+␣Spaceopens the character viewer.

iOS / Android

Emoji keyboard search “horse racing”.

Chat apps

:horse_racing:Common shortcode in Slack, GitHub, Discord, Mattermost and other chat apps; a few apps use a different name.

HTML

🏇

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

🏇

HTML hex

🏇

CSS content

content: "\1F3C7";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%9F%8F%87

On screen

Code points

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UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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