Emojion

๐ŸŠ๏ธ person swimming

Meaning

Depicts a person doing the freestyle crawl. Widely used for swimming, pool time, and summer leisure โ€” also common in fitness posts and triathlon content.

Keywords: freestyle, person, sport, swim, swimmer, swimming, triathlon

This emoji supports skin tone variations.

๐Ÿ’ก Did you know?

Added to Unicode 6.0 in 2010 as 'Swimmer,' it was later renamed the gender-neutral 'Person Swimming.' The dedicated male ๐ŸŠโ€โ™‚๏ธ and female ๐ŸŠโ€โ™€๏ธ variants arrived with Emoji 4.0 in 2016.

๐Ÿ’ก Did you know?

Big triathlon race this weekend! ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿšด๐Ÿƒ
Wait, you're doing all three?!

The ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿšด๐Ÿƒ sequence is a go-to shorthand for triathlon on social media. 'Triathlon' is even a CLDR keyword for this emoji, reflecting how athletes use it to represent all three legs without typing the word.

Combinations using this emoji

How it's used around the world

  • Japan

    With school swimming lessons and swim schools being common, the emoji frequently appears in everyday Japanese contexts like kids' practice updates and swim club competition posts.

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