Hi Ella - I am sure that you will manage somehow but try this if you have a moment.
Open Gimp and add a new image - perhaps 1500x1000.
Open the webpage with the unicode symbol.
Put your mouse pointer over the large infinity character and drag across to select the character.
Copy the character (right click and copy or Ctrl + C or whatever key combination you use to copy).
In Gimp...
Set the active font to one that you know a word processor would use - Times New Roman, Helvetica, Courier, Sans Serif are some that have this unicode character.
Make the text tool active (so that you have the text tool options available).
Set a very large size - say 800.
Click on the gimp canvas to apply the text tool and press Ctrl+V (or whatever key combination you use to paste with) to paste the unicode infinity character.
Now it's available to use as a template in Gimp.
Examples below:
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