This splashy icon is your go-to for pool days, beach trips, and those "just keep swimming" moments when life throws wave after wave. People use it to brag about lap times, announce triathlon training, or drop a flirty "pool selfie pending" vibe. It also works ironically for work chaosββdrowning in emailsβ but at least the form is freestyle. Pair it with a wave or sun emoji for extra summer energy, or fire it off during Olympics season to stan your favorite swim legends.
On Apple/iOS, the swimmer is shown in side profile doing a clean front crawl through bright blue, curved waves, one arm extended forward with splash trails and the other mid-recovery. The face is mostly neutral and partially obscured by a sleek swim cap (often yellow on iOS) and subtle goggles, with a smooth, almost sticker-like shading style. The medium-dark skin tone gives the swimmer a rich, warm complexion that stands out against the cool water.
Culturally, it channels Michael Phelps/Katie Ledecky ambition, hot-girl-summer cardio, and the eternal meme of βkeeping your head above water.β Itβs equally at home in vacation captions, gym flex posts, swim team updates, or playful sarcasm about βgoing with the flow.β
The Swimmer emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 4095 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: | Deeper Brown Swimmer Man Swimming: Medium-Dark Skin Tone person swimming: medium-dark skin tone man swimming: medium-dark skin tone |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ππΎ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ππΎ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🏊 🏾 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🏊 🏾 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f3ca, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F3CA, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127946, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0x8A, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8F 8A, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 217 212, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDFCA, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdfca, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57290, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F3CA 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F3CA, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127946, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F3CA\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8f\x8a\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDFCA\uD83C\uDFFE" |
