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🚴

person biking

Person Biking

🚴 is the cycling emoji: a cyclist pedalling a bike, with the rider's gender left open — the family tuner sets skin tone and gender. In messages it simply means riding: a bike commute, a workout, a weekend ride or a race, and the surrounding words say which.

EmojiSince 2015
Search it as
bike emoji · cycling emoji · cyclist · biker · bike ride · bike commute · road cycling · spin class
Type it as
:bicyclist:
Around since
2015 · Emoji 1.0
Shows up on
Every phone · iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux

Choose a version

18 versions
skin tone
gender

What 🚴 means

Neither — the plain one leaves gender open. The man and woman riders exist for when that detail matters; otherwise the bare character works as a general cycling sign, even for a group when the context makes that clear.

If it looks male on an older phone, that is old artwork: before platforms moved to neutral default drawings in the late 2010s, most vendors drew plain 🚴 as a man. The character itself never changed, so the same message may simply look different on an older device.

It came from phone emoji and a European transport proposal

In January 2009, Unicode proposed encoding the emoji held in separate Japanese mobile-carrier sets so they would display across systems. In April 2009, standards bodies from Ireland and Germany proposed a bicyclist and a mountain bicyclist — filed under transport and map symbols, not under their sports symbols.

Every form of this symbol

18
Click a version to select and copy it.

Don't confuse it with

2

Combination ideas

3
One way to say you're heading out fast by bike.
A group ride's meeting point.
Race day or a finish-line update.

Worth knowing

  • June 3 is World Bicycle Day, declared by the UN in April 2018 — a natural date for this rider.

Questions people ask

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Should I use 🚴 or 🚲 for my commute?

🚴. Use it when you are the one riding; 🚲 when you mean the bike itself.

How to type 🚴

Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “person biking”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “person biking”.
Chat apps
:bicyclist:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.
HTML
🚴
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🚴
HTML hex
🚴
CSS content
content: "\1F6B4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%9A%B4
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

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

Families this belongs to

1

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