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🏊️Person Swimming Emoji
🏊️ person swimming — U+1F3CA U+FE0F, added in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode groups it with the other 43 athletics emojis under People & Body.
What 🏊️ person swimming means
Sports figures, used for match talk, workout posts and the occasional metaphor - 🏋️ for effort, 🤹 for juggling commitments, 🏄 for coasting through something. Unicode 9.0 in 2016 filled the obvious gaps with 🤸, 🤼, 🤽, 🤾 and 🤹, and most entries here now come in man, woman and gender-neutral forms built from one base figure.
Unicode tags this one freestyle, person and sport and files it under People & Body → Athletics.
Copy variants
person swimming carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🏊️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 🏊U+1F3CAperson swimming
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F3CA U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🏊️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🏊️ | |
| CSS | \1F3CA\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3CA}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F3CA\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFCA\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f3ca}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3CA}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3CA}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8F%8A%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8F 8A EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFCA FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Piu+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 127946 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 🏊️ emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🏊️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “person swimming”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “freestyle”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f3caand Enter. - HTML — paste
🏊️.
How 🏊️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🏊️Apple
- 🏊️Segoe
- 🏊️Noto
- 🏊️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🏊️ person swimming emoji mean?+
🏊️ is the person swimming emoji, tagged freestyle, person and sport. Sports figures, used for match talk, workout posts and the occasional metaphor - 🏋️ for effort, 🤹 for juggling commitments, 🏄 for coasting through something. Unicode 9.0 in 2016 filled the obvious gaps with 🤸, 🤼, 🤽, 🤾 and 🤹, and most entries here now come in man, woman and gender-neutral forms built from one base figure.
What is the Unicode code for 🏊️?+
person swimming is U+1F3CA U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🏊️, in CSS \1F3CA\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F3CA}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🏊️ emoji added?+
person swimming got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Athletics in People & Body.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🏊️ person swimming.