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🐌️ Snail emoji
The snail emoji represents these slow-moving gastropods, symbolizing patience, taking time, or going slow. This emoji is used when expressing slowness, patience, or referring to actual snails and garden life.
Snails are universal symbols of patience and taking things slow, often used to express that something is moving at a leisurely pace or that patience is required. They also represent garden life and natural ecosystems.
Can relate to garden themes and nature contexts, often contrasted with faster creatures to emphasize speed differences in various life situations.
Could also be called Garden snail, gastropod, slow mover or shelled creature emoji.
Other meanings
Slowness, patience, taking time, garden life, leisurely pace, deliberate movement
Example Usage
This download is moving at a snail pace 🐌 so slow\!
Visual description
A brown snail with a spiral shell on its back, showing the characteristic body, tentacles with eyes, and coiled shell house.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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