emote

e·mot·ed, e·mot·ing.

• : to show or pretend emotion: to emote over the beauties of nature.
• : to portray emotion in acting, especially exaggeratedly or ineptly; behave theatrically: The actress emoted for all she was worth.
• : Digital Technology. to give a conventionalized descriptive account of an action or emotion or prompt one’s in-game avatar to perform an animated action or emotion using a command or code: To emote, type a forward slash and one of the commands from the list in chat.

Digital Technology.

• : a typed command or code that is translated into a descriptive account of an action or emotion, or that causes one’s in-game avatar to perform an action or emotion: Standard emotes in online video games allow you to cheer, greet, and thank other characters. the animation that is performed when such a code is entered: The first thing I do in a new game is check out my character’s dance emote.
• : a posted image, especially on the Twitch streaming video channel, that has a fixed but nontransparent meaning in the video gaming community: Classic emotes feature popular streamers making faces.