How to emote in GTA Online: Dance, clap, shadow box & more

❘ Published: 2024-03-06T10:56:24

Rockstar Games

GTA Online lets you interact with a ton of like-minded players and emotes are a great way to express yourself without speaking anything. From dancing and clapping to shadow boxing and saluting, here’s every emote in GTA Online and how to select as well as perform them.

The GTA community is hyped for GTA 6‘s 2025 console launch, but until then, you can either relish the classic GTA 5 campaign or play GTA Online which still boasts hundreds of thousands of active players.

GTA Online grants plenty of ways to interact with others on the servers, including emotes. You can dance, smoke, clap, salute, and perform a wide range of other actions that can initiate a conversation or add charm to an ongoing one.

If you’re new to emoting, here’s how to select and perform emotes in GTA Online and a list of all emotes in the game.

How to select emotes in GTA Online
How to perform emotes in GTA Online
All emotes in GTA Online

How to select emotes in GTA Online

Follow these steps to select emotes in GTA Online that’ll be in your saved collection:

Open the Interaction Menu in GTA Online by pressing M on PC, holding down the touchpad on PlayStation consoles, or holding the View Button on Xbox Series X/S.
Go to Style > Action and choose the emotes you want as your quickplay action.

How to perform emotes in GTA Online

You can emote in GTA Online through the Interaction Menu. PC players can open it by pressing the ‘M’ key, PS4 and PS5 players by holding the touchpad, and Xbox users by holding the view button.

Here’s how you can access emotes through the interaction menu in GTA Online:

Open the Interaction menu in GTA Online.
Search for ‘Style‘ and select it by pressing Enter on PC and X/A on a console.
Go to ‘Action‘ and choose the emote that suits you.
Hold down the two thumbsticks on your controller to emote on a console. On PC, hold the Caps lock key. If you double-tap the thumbsticks or the caps lock key, the character does an extended version of the selected emote.

You can find emotes in the Interaction menu of GTA Online

All emotes in GTA Online

You can perform a total of 69 emotes in GTA Online. Here’s every emote in the game:

The Bird (middle finger)
Rock
Salute
Jerk (jerk off)
Dance
Smoke
Drink eCola
Drink Pisswasser
Eat snack
Crew Action (Bro Love, The Bird, Jerk, Up Yours)
Blow Kiss
Air Thrusting
Dock
Knuckle Crunch
Slow Clap
Facepalm
Thumbs Up
Jazz Hands
Nose Pick
Air Guitar
Wave
Surrender
Shush
Photography
DJ
Air Synth
No Way (finger wave)
Chicken Taunt
Chin Brush
Freakout
Thumbs in Ears
Finger Kiss
Peace
You Loco
Banging Tunes Left
Banging Tunes
Banging Tunes Right
Oh Snap
Cats Cradle
Raise The Roof
Find The Fish
Salsa Roll
Heart Pumping
Uncle Disco
Make It Rain
Drink Champagne
Cry Baby
Cut Throat
Karate Chop
Shadow Boxing
The Woogie
Stinker
Air Drums
Call Me
Coin Roll and Toss
Bang Bang
Respect
Mind Blown
Crowd Invitation
Driver
Runner
Shooting
Suck It
Take Selfie
Drink Sprunk
Paired Actions
Backslap
Fist Bump
Manly Handshake

Emotes were also added to GTA 5 single player mode.

Emotes were initially released for GTA Online but Rockstar Games soon added the feature to GTA V’s Snapmatic selfie mode. Since then, a ton of new emotes have arrived with content updates and fans have been appreciating them.

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