The person swimming: dark skin tone emoji is all about glide, grit, and that glorious splash life. It’s your go-to for pool days, beach escapes, and humble-brag lap counts—aka the “I did 40 lengths before breakfast” flex. People also drop it ironically when they’re drowning in emails or responsibilities, channeling that Just Keep Swimming energy like Dory with a calendar full of deadlines. Flirty? Absolutely—pair it with a wave or splash to say, “come thru, the water’s perfect.”
On Apple/iOS, the swimmer does a clean front-crawl: one arm slicing forward, head angled to the side for a breath, snug goggles, and a bright yellow swim cap cutting through rippled, glossy blue water. The pose reads fast and athletic, almost mid-stroke, with a subtle 3D shine that screams action shot. The dark skin tone modifier makes it feel personal and inclusive—great for repping your vibe or matching your crew in group chats. You’ll see it in FitTok captions, triathlon posts, summer Stories, and even sarcastic “underwater at work” updates when the to-do list looks like the Mariana Trench.
The Swimmer emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 4096 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: | Black Swimmer Man Swimming: Dark Skin Tone person swimming: dark skin tone man swimming: dark 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, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F3CA, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127946, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0x8A, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8F 8A, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 217 212, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDFCA, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdfca, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57290, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F3CA 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F3CA, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127946, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F3CA\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8f\x8a\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDFCA\uD83C\uDFFF" |
