Person swimming: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A figure depicted in a mid-stroke freestyle swimming motion, rendered with a dark skin tone. The character is shown horizontal, with arms reaching forward as if pulling through water.

Usage Context

Used to discuss sports, exercise routines, or summer activities. It often appears in conversations about triathlons, trips to the beach, or pool parties. It is frequently grouped with related water-based or athletic icons like 🌊 or 🏃🏿.

History

The base swimmer emoji was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The ability to modify skin tones arrived later in 2015 with Unicode 8.0, allowing users to better represent human diversity in digital communication, which was a major step forward for inclusive messaging apps.

Details

Glyph

🏊🏿

Unicode

U+1F3CA U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3ca_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFCA;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-sport

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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