Man swimming: light skin tone Emoji
People
A man with a fair complexion shown mid-stroke while swimming. The graphic depicts the swimmer’s head above the water, with blue wave lines beneath to signify motion in a pool or open water.
Usage Context
This emoji is the go-to for discussing summer vacations, exercise routines, or competitive sports. It is frequently used to signal that someone is heading to the gym or to describe a busy lifestyle, often paired with the water wave or person rowing boat emojis.
History
Swimming was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. The option to modify skin tones was introduced later in 2015, following a major push to make character-based emojis more inclusive and representative of the global user base.
Details
Glyph
🏊🏻♂
Unicode
U+1F3CA U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f3ca_1f3fb_200d_2642:
HTML Entity
����‍♂
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
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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