Person swimming

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Shortcode: :swimmer:
Shortcode: :person_swimming:
Unicode: U+1F3CA
HTML: 🏊
CSS: \1F3CA
JavaScript: "\u{1F3CA}"
URL: %F0%9F%8F%8A

freestyle person sport swim swimmer swimming triathlon

What 🏊 means

A swimmer doing freestyle. It means swimming: laps, pool days, swim meets, and summer fun.

People post it for pool plans, morning laps, and triathlon training, with 🌊 or ☀️. It also jokes about heavy rain (“had to 🏊 to work”) or about being swamped, as in “swimming in emails.”

Facts

Person swimming 🏊 is an emoji in the people and body category, under person sport. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. 2 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :swimmer: or :person_swimming:. People also look for it with words like “freestyle”, “person”, “sport”, or “swim”.