Person swimming: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A person depicted mid-stroke during a swim, shown with a medium-light skin tone. The figure is captured in profile, usually surrounded by stylized blue waves to indicate motion through water.

Usage Context

Used to denote swimming as a physical activity, a workout, or a hobby. People often use it to signal they are heading to the pool, participating in a triathlon, or simply taking a vacation. It is frequently grouped with other aquatic icons like 💧 or 🌊 to drive home the message.

History

Swimming was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the initial emoji set intended to bring human activity icons to global mobile devices. Skin tone modifiers were introduced later in 2015, allowing users to select variations like this one to better represent their own appearance alongside the base 🏊 emoji.

Details

Glyph

🏊🏼

Unicode

U+1F3CA U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f3ca_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDFCA;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-sport

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

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