Man swimming Emoji

People

A figure of a man swimming, usually shown with his arms mid-stroke and water waves at the base. The design mimics the classic freestyle swimming posture used in competitive sports.

Usage Context

Used to talk about heading to the pool, training for a triathlon, or letting friends know you are busy swimming. It is often grouped with 🏊‍♀️ to discuss swim teams or with 🏖️ to describe summer vacation plans.

History

The swimmer emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the initial push to include more active sports icons. The specific man variation was introduced in 2016 to support gender-diverse emoji sets, allowing users to move away from the original gender-neutral base icon.

Details

Glyph

🏊‍♂

Unicode

U+1F3CA U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3ca_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFCA;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-sport

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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