Ice skate emoji meaning

The ice skate emoji shows a single ice skate, a type of shoe fitted with a metal blade for gliding across ice. This emoji is often used to talk about ice skating, which is both a popular recreational activity and sport during winter. It can also symbolize wintertime fun, cold weather, or icy environments. People use it to express excitement for activities on ice or to reference sports like figure skating or hockey.

The ice skate emoji was approved in Unicode 5.2 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/07259