scrolling

The continuous movement of text or images on a display screen in either a horizontal or vertical direction.

Noun

  1. The continuous movement of text or images on a display screen in either a horizontal or vertical direction.
  2. Ornamental scrollwork.
  3. Continuous and aimless consumption of content on social media, especially on websites or apps with a scrolling feed, such as Instagram, TikTok, or X.
    • But in recent years, I’ve watched that capacity for intense concentration dissolve into infinite scrolling on my phone. - 2025 October 6, Emma Loffhagen, “The one change that worked: I was lost in the infinite scroll –...

Forms

scrollings

Derived

doomscrolling

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of scroll