People & Body · Emoji 0.6
🏊Person Swimming Emoji
Generally, 🏊 just means someone is swimming or talking about swimming. It’s often used to express enjoyment of water activities.
The 🏊 emoji shows a person swimming.
- Unicode
- U+1F3CA
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :swimmer:
- Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🏊 Person Swimming emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 7.
02 — Platforms
Person Swimming emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F3CA. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Person Swimming emoji skin tones
🏊 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Person Swimming emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :swimmer:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F3CA.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🏊 Person Swimming emoji
No picker to hand? The person swimming can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Person Swimming emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Person Swimming emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person swimming for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🏊 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — Apps
What 🏊 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F3CA, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
🏊 vs 🏋️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Person Swimming
Code: U+1F3CA · added 2010
Shortcode: :swimmer:
Generally, 🏊 just means someone is swimming or talking about swimming.
Unicode name: Person Lifting Weights
Code: U+1F3CB U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :weight_lifter:
Generally, it just means someone is talking about working out or being physically strong.
12 — History
Where the 🏊 Person Swimming emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F3CA never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🏊 existed there as
KDDI au EADE, SoftBank E42D.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Person Swimming was approved as U+1F3CA and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🏊 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ