Person swimming: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A person with a medium skin tone captured in a swimming stroke, usually shown with a wave of water or a pool lane marker. This icon represents an athlete mid-motion, typically employing the freestyle or crawl swimming technique.

Usage Context

Widely used to discuss fitness, training, or summer vacations. It is the go-to choice for triathletes and swimmers logging their laps. People often pair it with water-related icons like 🌊 or the 🏊‍♀️ and 🏊‍♂️ variations to denote gender or team spirit.

History

Swimming was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 1.0. In 2015, Unicode 8.0 introduced the Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers, which allowed users to customize the base human figures to better reflect human diversity in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

🏊🏽

Unicode

U+1F3CA U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3ca_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFCA;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

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

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