🏄 is called "Person Surfing". Its official Unicode name is person surfing.

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Person Surfing

Person Surfing is one of the sporting people and covers beach, ocean and person.

⚽ Activities & Sports since 2010 · Unicode 6.0

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💡 Meaning

The 🏄 Person Surfing emoji belongs to the sporting people, filed by Unicode under People & Body. Typical contexts are beach, ocean, person and sport. Unicode also files it under surf, surfer, surfing and swell, which shows how widely it is read.

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📱 Typical Usage

🏄 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Activities and Sports. Added in 2010 with Emoji 0.6, it displays correctly on every up-to-date system. Its code point is U+1F3C4. The emoji also comes in 5 skin tone variants, listed in the sidebar.

✍️ Usage Examples

A single 🏄 is often enough to set the tone.
Fits messages about beach, ocean, person and sport.
Often seen near 🏄🏻 Person Surfing: Light Skin Tone, 🏌️‍♀️ Woman Golfing and 🏌🏻‍♀️ Woman Golfing: Light Skin Tone.

📈 Trends & Pop Culture

🏄 shows up most often in posts about beach, ocean, sport, surfer and swell. In the wiki it sits in the Activities & Sports category.

🔗 Popular Combinations

🏄🏌️‍♂️ – Person Surfing and Man Golfing
🏄🏌️‍♀️ – Person Surfing with Woman Golfing
🏄🏌️ – Person Surfing plus Person Golfing
🏄🚣 – Person Surfing and Person Rowing Boat

⚠️ Confusion Risk

Easy to mix up with 🏄🏻 Person Surfing: Light Skin Tone, 🏌️‍♀️ Woman Golfing or 🏌🏻‍♀️ Woman Golfing: Light Skin Tone. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.