The person swimming: light skin tone emoji is your digital cannonball into pool-party plans, beach days, and “I’m off to do laps” flexes. It’s also a go-to for dramatic “I’m drowning in work” posts, where the joke is that you’re not gliding—you're barely keeping your head above the inbox. In meme mode, it pairs well with water droplets for thirst-trap captions, or with a calendar emoji to hint at triathlon training, summer vacay, or “just keep swimming” energy à la Dory. People drop it sarcastically too—like when they ghost a group chat and claim they’ve been “swimming through emails.”
On Apple/iOS, you’ll spot a swimmer in profile doing a freestyle/front crawl: one arm slicing up and forward, the head turned sideways for a breath, face half-submerged in bright blue waves. The look is clean and glossy—think shiny gradients, crisp edges, and a determined, neutral expression under a bright swim cap (often yellow) with snug goggles. With the light skin tone modifier, the exposed arm and face read fair, making the stroke extra visible against the water. It screams “pool lane at 6 a.m.”, “Olympics replay at midnight,” and “someone’s counting laps instead of counting sheep.”
The Swimmer emoji combined with the White flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the white skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 4092 of 2393 |
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| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Previous Names: | White Swimmer Man Swimming: Light Skin Tone person swimming: light skin tone man swimming: light skin tone |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🏊🏻 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🏊🏻 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🏊 🏻 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🏊 🏻 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f3ca, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F3CA, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127946, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0x8A, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8F 8A, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 217 212, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDFCA, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdfca, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57290, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F3CA 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F3CA, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127946, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F3CA\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8f\x8a\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDFCA\uD83C\uDFFB" |
