Man swimming: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A man with dark skin performing a front crawl stroke, shown mid-movement as he glides through the water. He is typically depicted wearing blue swimming trunks and occasionally a swim cap.
Usage Context
Used to discuss fitness, training, or vacation plans involving a pool or the ocean. It is frequently sent as a shorthand for athletic commitment, such as training for a triathlon, or simply to signal that the sender is taking a break to go for a dip.
History
The base swimming emoji was added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The capability to modify this character with different skin tones arrived later, in Unicode 8.0, as part of a major initiative to make digital characters more representative of the global population.
Details
Glyph
🏊🏿♂
Unicode
U+1F3CA U+1F3FF U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f3ca_1f3ff_200d_2642:
HTML Entity
����‍♂
Specifications
Vendor Twitter/X
Category People
Subcategory person-sport
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Twemoji Attribution
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Twemoji graphics are licensed under CC-BY 4.0. You must provide appropriate credit when redistributing or modifying these assets.
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