Person swimming: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A person with medium-dark skin depicted in motion, mid-stroke, with a splash of blue water beneath them. The figure is shown from the chest up, capturing the fluid movement of the freestyle swimming stroke.

Usage Context

Used to discuss water sports, summer activities, or hitting the gym for a workout. It is frequently sent as a shorthand for heading to the pool or to celebrate a personal fitness achievement in a triathlon, often paired with 🏊 or 🌊 to drive home the aquatic theme.

History

While the base swimmer emoji arrived in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the expanded skin tone modifiers were introduced in 2015 as part of the Unicode 8.0 update. This rollout was designed to provide better representation for users across diverse global communities within mobile messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

🏊🏾

Unicode

U+1F3CA U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3ca_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFCA;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

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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