Emotes

An Emote is an animation that a player can select for their character to perform. It is also an effective way for muted players to communicate with each other, or with other players. With the addition of quick chat however, communicating via emotes has become much less common in muted players.

Emotes can be activated from the Emote menu in the interface. Blackened pictures are emotes yet to be unlocked, while coloured ones are emotes that have already been unlocked.

Default emotes
These emotes are given to players after completing the Learning the Ropes tutorial quest, while in Lumbridge.


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!Icon!!Name!!Icon!!Name!!Icon!!Name!!Icon!!Name
 * [[Image:Yes_emote_icon.PNG]]||Yes
 * [[Image:No_emote_icon.PNG]]||No
 * [[Image:Bow_emote_icon.PNG]]||Bow (enhanced)
 * [[Image:Angry_emote_icon.PNG]]||Angry (enhanced)
 * [[Image:Think_emote_icon.PNG]]||Think
 * [[Image:Wave_emote_icon.PNG]]||Wave
 * [[Image:Shrug_emote_icon.PNG]]||Shrug
 * [[Image:Cheer_emote_icon.PNG]]||Cheer
 * [[Image:Beckon_emote_icon.PNG]]||Beckon (enhanced)
 * [[Image:Laugh_emote_icon.PNG]]||Laugh
 * [[Image:Jump_for_joy_emote_icon.PNG]]||Jump for joy
 * [[Image:Yawn_emote_icon.PNG]]||Yawn (enhanced)
 * [[Image:Dance_emote_icon.PNG]]||Dance (enhanced)
 * [[Image:Jig_emote_icon.PNG]]||Jig
 * [[Image:Spin_emote_icon.PNG]]||Spin
 * [[Image:Headbang_emote_icon.PNG]]||Headbang
 * [[Image:Cry_emote_icon.PNG]]||Cry
 * [[Image:Blow_kiss_emote_icon.PNG]]||Blow kiss
 * [[Image:Panic_emote_icon.PNG]]||Panic
 * [[Image:Raspberry_emote_icon.PNG]]||Raspberry
 * [[Image:Clap_emote_icon.PNG]]||Clap
 * [[Image:Salute_emote_icon.PNG]]||Salute || colspan=4 style="background:#EEEEEE" |
 * }
 * [[Image:Panic_emote_icon.PNG]]||Panic
 * [[Image:Raspberry_emote_icon.PNG]]||Raspberry
 * [[Image:Clap_emote_icon.PNG]]||Clap
 * [[Image:Salute_emote_icon.PNG]]||Salute || colspan=4 style="background:#EEEEEE" |
 * }
 * }

Unlockable emotes
Certain emotes requires the player to do a certain task before the it is unlocked.


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!Icon!! Name !! How to get
 * align=center | [[image:Glass_box_emote_icon.PNG]]||Glass box||This emote is a reward from the Mime random event, where you lift your hands as if you were in a box.
 * align=center | [[image:Climb_rope_emote_icon.PNG]]||Climb rope||This emote is a reward from the Mime random event, where you attempt to drag an invisible rope downwards.
 * align=center | [[image:Lean_emote_icon.PNG]]||Lean||This emote is a reward from the Mime random event, where you lean against nothing for a while.
 * align=center | [[image:Glass_wall_emote_icon.PNG]]||Glass wall||This emote is a reward from the Mime random event, where you slowly move your hands across an invisible wall.
 * align=center | [[image:Goblin_bow_emote_icon.PNG]]||Goblin bow||This emote is a reward from The Lost Tribe quest, where you quickly bow. If you do this in front of Mistag, he will bow back.
 * align=center | [[image:Goblin_salute_emote_icon.PNG]]||Goblin salute||This emote is a reward from The Lost Tribe quest, where you jump from side to side, and finish with fisting the air. Do this in front of Mistag and he will get frightened.
 * align=center | [[image:Slap_head_emote_icon.PNG]]||Slap head||This emote is obtainable from the Grain of Plenty in the Stronghold of Security, where you slap, or hit, your head, as if you just realised something you forgot.
 * align=center | [[image:Stomp_emote_icon.PNG]]||Stamp||This emote is obtainable from the Cradle of Life in the Stronghold of Security, where you stomp the ground of frustration, making the ground vibrate.
 * align=center | [[image:Flap_emote_icon.PNG]]||Flap||This emote is obtainable from the Gift of Peace in the Stronghold of Security. The enhanced version, where it looks as if the player is actually flying, is obtainable from the 2007 Easter seasonal event. If both parts are completed, a player received a full chicken costume, which when worn, can do the enhanced version of the flap emote.
 * align=center | [[image:Idea_emote_icon.PNG]]||Idea||This emote is obtainable from the Box of Health in the Stronghold of Security, where you think with an unlighted light-bulb above your head, finally coming up with an idea, raising your hand and making the light-bulb lighten up.
 * align=center | [[image:Zombie_walk_emote_icon.PNG]]||Zombie walk||This emote is a reward from the Leo the Gravedigger random event, where you slowly make some sort of head bang, or walking like a Zombie, also it looks kinda like Neo dodging a bullet in slomotion.
 * align=center | [[image:Zombie_dance_emote_icon.PNG]]||Zombie dance||This emote is a reward from the Leo the Gravedigger random event, where you lift your fists and start to dance like Micheal Jacksons background-dancer in the music-video "Thriller".
 * align=center | [[image:Zombie_hand_emote_icon.PNG]]||Zombie Hand||Unlocked after completing the 2007 Halloween event, where you hop backwards, avoiding a huge Zombie-like hand grabbing for you, making temporary scars in the ground.
 * align=center | [[image:Scared_emote_icon.PNG]]||Scared||This emote is a reward for doing a Halloween seasonal event starting in 2005, where you hide your head in your arms, shaking with your whole body.
 * align=center | [[image:Bunny-hop_emote_icon.PNG]]||Bunny-hop||This emote is rewarded to players who have done an Easter seasonal event, where you simply jump up and down like a bunny, scrathcing your nose a bit in the end of the emote.
 * align=center | [[image:Skillcape_E.png]]||Skill Cape emotes||There are 25 different Skill Cape emotes in RuneScape: 24 skill emotes (one per skill cape), which are only activated when wearing the skill cape and an additional emote for the Quest Cape, which can be worn if every quest in RuneScape is completed. If a new quest is released, the Quest Cape becomes inactivated until the player completes the new quest. See Skill Cape.
 * align=center | [[image:snowman.png]]||Snowman Dance||This emote is unlocked by players who have built or helped to build snowmen in the 2007 Christmas event, where you jump from side to side in a happy christmas-musical-way.
 * align=center | [[Image:Air_Guitar.gif]]||Air guitar ||Available after unlocking 500 or more songs in the RuneScape jukebox. Plays 5 notes when activated. See music.
 * align=center | [[Image:Safety_first_emote_icon.png]]||Safety first||Available after completing the Misthalin Training Centre of Excellence miniquest, where you cross your arms over your chest, making a huge shield appear in front of you.
 * align=center | [[Image:Explore Emote.PNG]]||Explore||Unlocked by completing Beginner tasks of Lumbridge and Draynor Achievement Diary, where you hold your hand over your eyes, leaning forward as if you searched for something, and finally taking out a sextant out of your pocket, looking through that instead.
 * }
 * align=center | [[image:Zombie_walk_emote_icon.PNG]]||Zombie walk||This emote is a reward from the Leo the Gravedigger random event, where you slowly make some sort of head bang, or walking like a Zombie, also it looks kinda like Neo dodging a bullet in slomotion.
 * align=center | [[image:Zombie_dance_emote_icon.PNG]]||Zombie dance||This emote is a reward from the Leo the Gravedigger random event, where you lift your fists and start to dance like Micheal Jacksons background-dancer in the music-video "Thriller".
 * align=center | [[image:Zombie_hand_emote_icon.PNG]]||Zombie Hand||Unlocked after completing the 2007 Halloween event, where you hop backwards, avoiding a huge Zombie-like hand grabbing for you, making temporary scars in the ground.
 * align=center | [[image:Scared_emote_icon.PNG]]||Scared||This emote is a reward for doing a Halloween seasonal event starting in 2005, where you hide your head in your arms, shaking with your whole body.
 * align=center | [[image:Bunny-hop_emote_icon.PNG]]||Bunny-hop||This emote is rewarded to players who have done an Easter seasonal event, where you simply jump up and down like a bunny, scrathcing your nose a bit in the end of the emote.
 * align=center | [[image:Skillcape_E.png]]||Skill Cape emotes||There are 25 different Skill Cape emotes in RuneScape: 24 skill emotes (one per skill cape), which are only activated when wearing the skill cape and an additional emote for the Quest Cape, which can be worn if every quest in RuneScape is completed. If a new quest is released, the Quest Cape becomes inactivated until the player completes the new quest. See Skill Cape.
 * align=center | [[image:snowman.png]]||Snowman Dance||This emote is unlocked by players who have built or helped to build snowmen in the 2007 Christmas event, where you jump from side to side in a happy christmas-musical-way.
 * align=center | [[Image:Air_Guitar.gif]]||Air guitar ||Available after unlocking 500 or more songs in the RuneScape jukebox. Plays 5 notes when activated. See music.
 * align=center | [[Image:Safety_first_emote_icon.png]]||Safety first||Available after completing the Misthalin Training Centre of Excellence miniquest, where you cross your arms over your chest, making a huge shield appear in front of you.
 * align=center | [[Image:Explore Emote.PNG]]||Explore||Unlocked by completing Beginner tasks of Lumbridge and Draynor Achievement Diary, where you hold your hand over your eyes, leaning forward as if you searched for something, and finally taking out a sextant out of your pocket, looking through that instead.
 * }
 * align=center | [[image:snowman.png]]||Snowman Dance||This emote is unlocked by players who have built or helped to build snowmen in the 2007 Christmas event, where you jump from side to side in a happy christmas-musical-way.
 * align=center | [[Image:Air_Guitar.gif]]||Air guitar ||Available after unlocking 500 or more songs in the RuneScape jukebox. Plays 5 notes when activated. See music.
 * align=center | [[Image:Safety_first_emote_icon.png]]||Safety first||Available after completing the Misthalin Training Centre of Excellence miniquest, where you cross your arms over your chest, making a huge shield appear in front of you.
 * align=center | [[Image:Explore Emote.PNG]]||Explore||Unlocked by completing Beginner tasks of Lumbridge and Draynor Achievement Diary, where you hold your hand over your eyes, leaning forward as if you searched for something, and finally taking out a sextant out of your pocket, looking through that instead.
 * }
 * align=center | [[Image:Safety_first_emote_icon.png]]||Safety first||Available after completing the Misthalin Training Centre of Excellence miniquest, where you cross your arms over your chest, making a huge shield appear in front of you.
 * align=center | [[Image:Explore Emote.PNG]]||Explore||Unlocked by completing Beginner tasks of Lumbridge and Draynor Achievement Diary, where you hold your hand over your eyes, leaning forward as if you searched for something, and finally taking out a sextant out of your pocket, looking through that instead.
 * }
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Operating emotes
Some items, when operated, may activate an emote.


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! Icon !! Name !! Description
 * [[image:Rubber_chicken.PNG]]||Dance (enhanced)||This emote is used by either right-clicking a Rubber chicken and clicking dance or operating it while wielding it. It will make you do the "Chicken-Dance".
 * [[image:Reindeer_hat.PNG]]||Reindeer||This emote is only usable by those with a Reindeer hat. To activate the emote, you must operate your hat while wearing it. It will make you act like a reindeer.
 * [[Image:Chocatrice_cape.PNG]]|| Giant Easter Egg || Available after completing the 2008 Easter event. You must operate the chocatrice cape to use this emote. It will make you pop out of a giant, yellow egg.
 * [[Image:Dragon Kite.PNG]]|| Toy kite || Released on April 1st 2008, as an April Fool's joke parodying the item "dragon kiteshield." Toy kites can be purchased from Diango in Draynor for 100 coins. It makes the wind blow extra hard in the kite.
 * }
 * [[Image:Chocatrice_cape.PNG]]|| Giant Easter Egg || Available after completing the 2008 Easter event. You must operate the chocatrice cape to use this emote. It will make you pop out of a giant, yellow egg.
 * [[Image:Dragon Kite.PNG]]|| Toy kite || Released on April 1st 2008, as an April Fool's joke parodying the item "dragon kiteshield." Toy kites can be purchased from Diango in Draynor for 100 coins. It makes the wind blow extra hard in the kite.
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Penguin emotes
During and after the Cold War quest, there are 8 penguin emotes which can be used while in a Penguin suit.


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! Icon !! Name !! Description !! Emote
 * [[Image:Shiver.png]] || Shiver || Crosses fins over chest and lowers head. Body shakes as if he/she is cold. "Brrr..!" || [[Image:Penguin_Shiver.gif]]
 * [[image:Spin.png]] || Spin || Spins once in a clockwise direction. "Spin around!"||[[Image:Penguin_Spin.gif]]
 * [[image:Clap.png]] || Clap || Claps fins together. "Very good performance!" ||[[Image:Penguin_Clap.gif]]
 * [[Image:P_Bow.png]] || Bow || Lifts both fins into the air. Places left fin over chest and bows. "After you.."||[[Image:Penguin_Bow.gif]]
 * [[Image:Cheer.png]] || Cheer || Waves fins above head. "Lift the roof!" ||[[Image:Penguin_Cheer.gif]]
 * [[Image:Wave.png]] || Wave || Waves left fin. "G'bye!"||[[Image:Penguin_Wave.gif]]
 * [[Image:Preen.png]] || Preen || Turns head down; moves left fin behind; shakes head."Stupid fleas..!"|| [[Image:Penguin_Preen.gif]]
 * [[Image:Flap.png]] || Flap || Lifts fins into air and flaps them rapidly. "Flap, flap, flap.."||[[Image:Penguin_Flap.gif]]
 * }
 * [[Image:Cheer.png]] || Cheer || Waves fins above head. "Lift the roof!" ||[[Image:Penguin_Cheer.gif]]
 * [[Image:Wave.png]] || Wave || Waves left fin. "G'bye!"||[[Image:Penguin_Wave.gif]]
 * [[Image:Preen.png]] || Preen || Turns head down; moves left fin behind; shakes head."Stupid fleas..!"|| [[Image:Penguin_Preen.gif]]
 * [[Image:Flap.png]] || Flap || Lifts fins into air and flaps them rapidly. "Flap, flap, flap.."||[[Image:Penguin_Flap.gif]]
 * }
 * [[Image:Flap.png]] || Flap || Lifts fins into air and flaps them rapidly. "Flap, flap, flap.."||[[Image:Penguin_Flap.gif]]
 * }
 * }

Acrobat emotes
During the Agility performance in Balthazar Beauregard's Big Top Bonanza, you can use some new emotes. However, these can only be used on the rope.


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! Icon !! Name !! Level
 * [[Image:Small-hop.png]] || align=left | Small hop || 10
 * [[Image:One-leg-balance.png]]|| align=left | One-leg balance || 20
 * [[Image:Twirl.png]]|| align=left | Twirl || 30
 * [[Image:Handstand.png]]|| align=left | Handstand || 40
 * [[Image:Cartwheel.png]]|| align=left | Cartwheel || 50
 * [[Image:Small-leap.png]]|| align=left | Small leap || 60
 * [[Image:No-hand-cartwheel.png]]|| align=left | No-hand cartwheel || 70
 * [[Image:Forward-roll.png]]|| align=left | Forward roll || 80
 * [[Image:Large-leap.png]]|| align=left | Large leap || 90
 * [[Image:Backflip.png]]|| align=left | Backflip || 99
 * [[Image:Juggle.png]]|| align=left | Juggle || -
 * }
 * [[Image:No-hand-cartwheel.png]]|| align=left | No-hand cartwheel || 70
 * [[Image:Forward-roll.png]]|| align=left | Forward roll || 80
 * [[Image:Large-leap.png]]|| align=left | Large leap || 90
 * [[Image:Backflip.png]]|| align=left | Backflip || 99
 * [[Image:Juggle.png]]|| align=left | Juggle || -
 * }
 * [[Image:Backflip.png]]|| align=left | Backflip || 99
 * [[Image:Juggle.png]]|| align=left | Juggle || -
 * }
 * [[Image:Juggle.png]]|| align=left | Juggle || -
 * }
 * }

Emote enhancers
Emote enhancers are equipment that when worn make an emote be performed differently. Before the quest Tower of Life, emote enhancers were only available through Treasure Trails. All of the enhancers are tradable except for the satchels, Builder's costume and Chicken Costume. All of the enhancers are members-only items, except for the Chicken Costume.


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! Image !! Enhancer !! Emote !! Information
 * align="center" | [[Image:Powdered_Wigg.png]]|| A powdered wig || Angry || Tradable: 0 coins. Level 1 Treasure Trails reward.
 * align="center" | [[image:Flared_trousers.png]] || Flared trousers || Dance || Tradable: 0 coins. Level 1 Treasure Trails reward.
 * align="center" | [[image:Builders_shirt.png]] || Builder's costume || Beckon || Nontradable. Tower of Life quest suit, consisting of 4 parts.  First non-treasure trails emote enhancer.  Satchels will also enhance Beckon.
 * align="center" | [[image:Pantaloons.PNG]] || Pantaloons || Bow || Tradable: 0 coins. Level 1 Treasure Trails reward.
 * align="center" | [[image:Sleeping_cap.gif]] || Sleeping cap || Yawn || Tradable: 0 coins. Level 1 Treasure Trails reward.
 * align="center" | [[image:Chicken_wings.png]] || Chicken Costume || Flap || Nontradable. Received from Easter 2007.
 * }
 * align="center" | [[image:Pantaloons.PNG]] || Pantaloons || Bow || Tradable: 0 coins. Level 1 Treasure Trails reward.
 * align="center" | [[image:Sleeping_cap.gif]] || Sleeping cap || Yawn || Tradable: 0 coins. Level 1 Treasure Trails reward.
 * align="center" | [[image:Chicken_wings.png]] || Chicken Costume || Flap || Nontradable. Received from Easter 2007.
 * }
 * align="center" | [[image:Chicken_wings.png]] || Chicken Costume || Flap || Nontradable. Received from Easter 2007.
 * }

Skill cape emote


The Skill cape emote is unlocked when a player first wears a Cape of Achievement, gained by purchasing one after gaining level 99 in a skill, or completing all the quests to obtain the Quest point cape. Using this emote will perform an emote respective to the current equipped Cape of Achievement, as each skillcape has a different emote.

Subsequently, it can only be performed while the player has a Cape of Achievement equipped. Note that players will have to be wearing the cape, as wearing the matching hood would not enable the emote to be performed. If used without an equipped Cape of Achievement, the player gets a message, "You need to be wearing a Skill Cape in order to perform that emote."

Trivia

 * It is possible to make emotes in egg or monkey form. Only emote-created items like lightbulb or zombie hand appear.
 * It was possible to combine Air guitar with Snowman Dance, resulting in doing the Snowman Dance while playing the Air guitar. This was done clicking the Snowman Dance emote, quickly followed by the Air guitar emote. This glitch was fixed by Jagex, and is no longer possible.
 * Zombie dance is similar to the dance performed in Michael Jackson's "Thriller" music video.
 * When you unlock the Explore emote, you can use it at a PvP arena (preferably Duel Arena) while being attacked and the sextant you would normally use appears without you holding it.
 * It was possible to combine Explore emote and the idea emote together, making a lightbulb appear above your head and the sextant dissapear. Jagex soon fixed this glitch so it is no longer possible.
 * It is possible to pelt a player wearing the Quest Points Cape with a Snowball, causing the quest logo to disappear from above the cape wearer's head.