🏂️ snowboarder

Meaning

Depicts someone carving down a snowy slope on a snowboard. Primarily used for snowboarding itself, but also pops up to signal winter adventures, speed, and effortless cool.

Keywords: ski, snow, snowboard, sport

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How it's used around the world

• Japan

  Snowboarding exploded in popularity in Japan after the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, cementing a strong youth-culture and freestyle image. The emoji often carries that free-spirited, effortlessly-cool nuance in Japanese social media.