Welcome to the free animated smiley faces index, this is a growing archive of free smileys, otherwise known as animated emoticons or smiley faces, that are often used at forums to express that little bit extra feeling into a post or just for a laugh. They almost always come in GIF format, some are static, some are animated but they are all fun and are easy to add to forum posts and sigs, social networking sites usch as myspace or facebook, MSN messenger, YAHOO messenger, your own websites, email and more!

We don't just endeavour to provide you with thousands of free hotlinkable smiley faces for your email, forum posts etc you can find out all the free smiley information you need straight from this site.

Smileys are a great source of fun, whether to use while you're posting on forums or if you just stick to email, they can easily add a laugh and a bit of colour to an otherwise bland medium. This is true of course for the rest of the net, but the smiley face (especially when it's free), add a colourful new dimension to text and impart a certain amount of emotion (hence the word emoticon) from the person sending the message, making them instantly loveable by many.

Check out the Smiley FAQ to learn how to use them in various sites and programs such as Microsoft's Outlook Express, many methods require you to Copy Paste which you can find out how to do on the Glossary page.

Even if you are new to the internet and are struggling with a massive learning curve, this site should have you using Smiley Faces, ASCII Smileys and Acronyms like a pro in no time .

If you still can't find what you're looking for on the site then drop me an Email Here and I will get back to you as soon as I can .

The smileys in the FC (FriendsCircle.co.uk) galleries are used on a great forum based in the UK that reaches out to the whole world via the web. It's called FriendsCircle.co.uk and was set up by a pretty young woman called Elaine, who was an admin at FriendshipForum.co.uk
The owner however, after running Friendship Forum for several years got tired of it and suddenly closed the place down with no warning, I guess we all have our limits and running a busy forum like FriendshipForum.co.uk was bound to take its toll.

The members were thrown into shock and disarray at the time but led by Hippy, a temporary forum was setup until after a day they setup a more permanent home at Friends Circle. From there they contacted old members from Friendship Forum via email, Facebook, Myspace, instant messenger and anyway they had contact with each other and rallied round to bring the troops to their new home.

They have settled into their new home now, members can arrange swaps, play arcade games, chat about anything covering a very wide array of discussions and lots more. The staff are friendly and keen to make new friends as are the members that make FC, it's a pretty busy place with a friendly atmosphere which is really hard to acheive but everyone chips in their bit to help the community grow and so it has!

You are more than welcome to join this bustling friendly community, pop along and tell them I sent ya, they'll be really gald you joined and if you're shy don't worry they're all big softies with big hearts! So if you're looking to make friends and get involved with a friendly and busy growing community check them out at:

There are an amazing 53 categories of smileys to browse from, all free and many of the categories below have multiple galleries of smileys to choose from. Easy to use and find, select the category you need for the smiley you want then just browse through that categories galleries.

If you have javascript enabled then you can just left click on the code box you need and the javascript will select all the code for you, then it's just a matter of right clicking and selecting copy from the menu. We now also take submissions, check out the contact page for my email address and email any smileys you would like added .

There are now nearly 4,000 smileys and emoticons on FreeSmileys.org, plenty to keeop even the most ardent smiley lovers happy and they can really add a lovely level of expression to any web page, be it a forum, blog, email or messenger even. There's loads of instructions on how to use them, really simple and with screenshots to make them even easier and of course, if you need any more help just send me an email and I will get back to you asap .

All the smiley faces here are free to use and hotlink to, we have all sorts of smileys available, from,

Alot of visitors find the site and use it mainly for the smileys, however, smileys aren't the only thing you will find on www.FreeSmileys.org There are also animated emoticons or signature graphics, when I first started adding them they were added as smileys but I got to thinking, they're not really smileys are they? And although they can be used on msn, blogs, shout boxes, forums, websites, social networking sites, emails and the like just like regular smileys can they are waaaaay different.

As you'll see below we have hundreds of the cute little gifs, most of them are animated and I guess really they are considered emoticons by alot of folks but when I split them from the main galleries I saw their main purpose as being used in peoples sigs on forums, which is what I used a fair few of them for.

Here are the galleries I currently have on the site, don't worry, I have more I need to add, it's just finding the time!