🏊‍♂️

Man Swimming Emoji 🏊‍♂️

What 🏊‍♂️ means

A half-visible profile of a bare-chested man wearing a pair of swimming goggles and a cap as he strokes through the water with one arm and the same side of the upper-body out of the water, while the rest of the body is beneath.

The 🏊‍♂️ Man Swimming emoji signifies the sport of swimming, but it can also refer to other swimming-related sports such as snorkeling and diving. It can suggest swimming lessons, competitions, or even an exotic travel destination that is a haven for swimmers as well.

This emoji is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

If you're a professional swimmer, or you just love swimming, you can use 🏊‍♂️ in your social media profile name.
Use 🏊‍♂️ in the broad context of sports. For example, if you're posting about a newly inaugurated sports club or a sports event, then you can use 🏊‍♂️ along with other sports emojis such as 🚣‍♀️ Rowing, 🧗‍♂️ Rock Climbing, 🏌️‍♀️ Golfing, etc.
🏊‍♂️ can be used in the post caption while sharing breathtaking pictures of the sea, a beach, or an island you personally traveled to or any other general but gorgeous post that you came across on social media.
If you're wishing someone for their birthday via a social media post and that someone is a swimmer, then you can use 🏊‍♂️ within the birthday message (the caption, basically).
Use 🏊‍♂️ in the caption while posting pictures or videos of you swimming or an exotic trip that you and your buddies went for, which involved a lot of water activities.
If you're flaunting your beach bod on your social media handle, use 🏊‍♂️ in the post caption.

Other Names

🏊‍♂️ Male Swimmer
🏊‍♂️ Swimming
🏊‍♂️ Male Diver
🏊‍♂️ Diving
🏊‍♂️ Floating
🏊‍♂️ Stroking
🏊‍♂️ Snorkeling
🏊‍♂️ Plunging

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-sport
Codepoints: U+1F3CA U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 4.0
Shortcodes: :man-swimming: Slack:man_swimming: Discord
Keywords: freestyle, man, sport, swim, swimmer, swimming, triathlon
How it's built: Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.