The person playing water polo: medium-light skin tone emoji splashes onto your screen with big “I got this” energy—ball up, waves flying, game face on. It literally shows a water polo player mid-throw, and with the medium-light skin tone modifier it adds a personal touch for identity and representation. People drop this when they’re hyping an actual match, bragging about pool workouts, or joking that they’re “treading water” through deadlines and drama. It also doubles as a “carrying the team” flex, a playful invite to pool plans, or a cheeky way to lob a hot take and hope the timeline doesn’t block it like a goalie.
On Apple/iOS, the player wears a blue swim cap and sits chest-deep in bright aqua ripples, one arm bent overhead gripping a mustard-yellow water polo ball—very three‑quarter view, clean shading, focused expression. The yellow ball is the giveaway, and the splashy blue strokes make it feel mid-action. During the Olympics, this emoji trends as shorthand for clutch saves, brutal eggbeater legs, and chlorine-core vibes. Online, expect it to show up with “making a splash,” “just keep swimming,” or as a sarcastic reply when someone is obviously in over their head but still hurling takes like they’re MVP.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3203 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| 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 |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - 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) | 1f93d, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F93D, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129341, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0xBD, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A4 BD, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 244 275, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD3D, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd3d, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56637, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F93D 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F93D, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129341, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F93D\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa4\xbd\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD3D\uD83C\uDFFC" |
