This emoji splashes in with a front‑crawl flex: a man cutting through bright blue water, shown with a medium‑dark skin tone. On Apple/iOS, he’s angled in a dynamic freestyle pose with one arm outstretched, head turned to the side for a breath, slick goggles and a clean swim‑cap silhouette, plus foamy highlights that make the lane look extra crisp. It instantly reads as motion—like you can almost hear the splash. The skin tone modifier brings inclusive, IRL vibes to your pool‑day texts and victory‑lap posts.
Online, it covers everything from “headed to the pool” and “open‑water training” to the metaphorical “swimming in emails but still vibing.” People pair it with waves, stopwatches, and suns for triathlon bragging rights, or drop it ironically when they absolutely cannot swim (but will dog‑paddle through life anyway). Meme culture loves a good “just keep swimming” nod (thanks, Dory), and there’s a dash of Michael Phelps/Aquaman energy when you’re feeling elite. It also works as a flirty summer flex—aka the pre–pool selfie hint—or a subtle way to say you’re gliding past drama with zero splash. In group chats, it’s the move for vacation countdowns, swim‑meet hype, and humblebrag lap stats.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3237 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 | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| 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, 1f3fe, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F3CA, U+1F3FE, U+200D, U+2642, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127946, 127998, 8205, 9794, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0x8A, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE, 0xE2 0x80 0x8D, 0xE2 0x99 0x82, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8F 8A, F0 9F 8F BE, E2 80 8D, E2 99 82, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 217 212, 360 237 217 276, 342 200 215, 342 231 202, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDFCA, 0xD83C 0xDFFE, 0x200D, 0x2642, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdfca, d83cdffe, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57290, 55356 57342, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F3CA 0x0001F3FE 0x0000200D 0x00002642 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F3CA, 01F3FE, 200D, 2642, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127946, 127998, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F3CA\U0001F3FE\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8f\x8a\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe\xe2\x80\x8d\xe2\x99\x82\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDFCA\uD83C\uDFFE\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
