The man swimming: medium skin tone emoji shows a determined front-crawl swimmer slicing through bright blue water, arm up mid-stroke and droplets flying. On Apple/iOS, it’s a clean side profile with a snug swim cap and goggles, vivid blue waves, and the visible arm and shoulder shaded to the medium skin tone. It radiates motion, stamina, and “BRB, hitting my laps” energy. Visually punchy, it pops in captions and chats like you can practically hear the splash.
People use it for pool days, summer flexes, triathlon training updates, or whenever they’re channeling their inner Michael Phelps. Online, it doubles as metaphor: “swimming in emails,” “just keep swimming” (Finding Nemo voice), or “drowning but vibing” when life is chaotic. It swings flirty (“pool date?”) or thirst-trappy next to a post-swim selfie, and just as easily goes sarcastic when you’re barely staying afloat during finals. Sports fans spam it during the Olympics and world champs, while beach-goers pair it with waves and suns for instant vacation mode. Because this is the medium skin tone version, it’s often chosen for representation in workout logs, Strava screenshots, and coach-text check-ins. Bonus use: the slickest way to say you’re dipping from a convo—literally swimming out.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2466 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 |
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| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 11 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🏊🏽♂️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 5 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🏊🏽♂️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🏊 🏽 ‍ ♂ ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🏊 🏽 ‍ ♂ ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f3ca, 1f3fd, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F3CA, U+1F3FD, U+200D, U+2642, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127946, 127997, 8205, 9794, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0x8A, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD, 0xE2 0x80 0x8D, 0xE2 0x99 0x82, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8F 8A, F0 9F 8F BD, E2 80 8D, E2 99 82, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 217 212, 360 237 217 275, 342 200 215, 342 231 202, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDFCA, 0xD83C 0xDFFD, 0x200D, 0x2642, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdfca, d83cdffd, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57290, 55356 57341, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F3CA 0x0001F3FD 0x0000200D 0x00002642 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F3CA, 01F3FD, 200D, 2642, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127946, 127997, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F3CA\U0001F3FD\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8f\x8a\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd\xe2\x80\x8d\xe2\x99\x82\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDFCA\uD83C\uDFFD\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
