This emoji dives headfirst into any convo where water, workouts, or willpower are the mood. The medium skin tone variant shows a warm tan arm slicing through the water, perfect for repping melanin while you rack up laps or, y’know, pretend to. On Apple/iOS, it’s a left-facing swimmer doing a freestyle stroke, rocking a bright red swim cap and goggles, with one arm fully extended over layered aqua-blue waves—clean lines, glossy vibe, zero splash face. You can’t really see an expression, but the body language screams, “I’ve got this,” even if you’re actually just swimming through your inbox.
People use it for “pool day!” updates, ocean adventures, triathlon brags, and that classic “just keep swimming” resilience energy (Finding Nemo hive, rise up). It’s also prime for sarcasm: “Me, calmly swimming through drama” or “currently drowning in deadlines but make it athletic.” Flirty? Drop it with a location pin for a pool date or a thirst-trap selfie caption—hydration and vibes only. During the Olympics, it does double duty as a hype badge for record-chasing moments (cue the Michael Phelps references), and on social media it’s a smooth way to announce you’re escaping the group chat like a stealth torpedo.
The Swimmer emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 4094 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| 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: | Olive Toned Swimmer Man Swimming: Medium Skin Tone person swimming: medium skin tone man swimming: medium 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, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F3CA, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127946, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0x8A, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8F 8A, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 217 212, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDFCA, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdfca, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57290, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F3CA 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F3CA, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127946, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F3CA\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8f\x8a\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDFCA\uD83C\uDFFD" |
