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FiveM Emote List

Updated July 2026 | by the Var FiveM team

A FiveM emote list is the catalog of animations players can trigger on a roleplay server: waves, sit-downs, dances, drinking a coffee, walking with a limp. This guide breaks the full library down by category with real counts, explains how emote commands and keybinds work, and compares the main emote menus, including dpemotes and rpemotes.

How emote commands work in FiveM

Emotes in FiveM are triggered three ways: a chat command, a menu, or a keybind. The chat command pattern is /e followed by the emote name (for example /e sit), with /emote as the long form on most resources; a separate command like /emotemenu usually opens the full menu. Under the hood, emote scripts register these binds server-side with FiveM's RegisterKeyMapping, which means every player can remap them personally in GTA V Settings under Key Bindings, then FiveM. On servers running Var-Emote, the default menu key is M, and the menu is a searchable React NUI instead of a native scrolling list, so finding one emote among hundreds takes seconds.

Every emote category, with real counts

Var-Emote ships more than 1,000 animations split across seven categories. The table below lists each category and its exact count, so you know what a complete emote library looks like in 2026. For the full searchable list of every emote name, see the official emote list documentation.

A few categories deserve extra context. Prop emotes (273) attach an object to the animation, which is what turns a generic drinking loop into a believable coffee at the station scene. Walk styles (114) persist until reset, so a character can keep an injured limp across an entire medical roleplay. Facial expressions (28) layer on top of any emote, letting an angry face carry through a conversation. Animal emotes (51) cover animal peds, useful for K9 officers and pet roleplay.

Shared and dual emotes

Shared emotes, also called dual emotes, are synchronized two-player animations: handshakes, hugs, carries and similar paired scenes. Var-Emote includes 42 of them, and the flow is consent-based by design: the initiator targets a nearby player, a distance check confirms both are close enough, and the second player gets an accept or decline prompt with a request timeout. Server-side rate limiting stops spam requests, which matters on public servers where unsolicited emote requests get abused quickly.

Emote wheel, keybinds and playlists

Typing /e dance mid-scene breaks immersion, so fast access matters more than raw library size. Var-Emote gives you three layers of quick access: an 8-slot emote wheel for your most used animations, Numpad keybind slots for one-press favorites, and emote playlists, up to 10 lists of 20 emotes each, that chain animations for scripted scenes like a dance routine or a workout set. A recent-history tab keeps your last 30 emotes one click away. There is also a 3D placement mode: instead of playing an emote where you stand, you drop it at a chosen world position with a live preview gizmo, which is how players line up a sit emote exactly on a chair or a lean exactly against a wall.

Utility modules beyond emotes

A modern emote script replaces a handful of separate resources. Var-Emote bundles crouch and crawl, finger pointing, a ragdoll toggle, hands-up, walk style switching, a selfie and screenshot capture mode, and a binoculars module with normal, night and thermal vision. Consolidating these into one resource means one keybind config, one NUI and fewer scripts competing for the same keys.

dpemotes and rpemotes alternatives

dpemotes is the best-known free emote resource for FiveM, and rpemotes is its actively maintained community fork. Both are solid, widely used, and a reasonable default for a new server: they cover chat commands, a menu and a large animation set at zero cost. The trade-offs show up in the interface and the extras. Their menus are native list menus rather than a searchable NUI, and features like an emote wheel, playlists, a shared-emote consent flow or 3D placement are either missing or depend on patches and forks.

Var-Emote positions itself above the free options rather than against them: a React NUI menu with search, the 8-slot wheel, Numpad binds, 10 playlists, a 30-emote history, 42 dual emotes with accept and decline handling, 3D placement with a gizmo, and the bundled utility modules listed above. It supports ESX, QBCore and Standalone with framework auto-handling for notifications, and ships in Escrow, Partially Open and Open Source variants on Tebex. If your server treats emotes as a core roleplay tool rather than a nice-to-have, that is the gap the paid option fills.

Related: Best FiveM scripts in 2026