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  • present participle of scroll.

scrolling

American  
[skrohl-ing] / ˈskroʊl ɪŋ /

noun

  • scrollings
    plural
  1. Digital Technology. the act or process of viewing a continuous selection of text, images, etc., on a screen by moving the display vertically or horizontally.

  2. Digital Technology. doomscrolling.

  3. the act of scrolling.


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So Hanawalt reactivated her dormant Facebook account and began scrolling through local horse sale groups.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

However, the results do not establish that scrolling directly causes the observed differences in cognitive performance.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

In what’s known as social commerce, people scrolling through their social media apps for entertainment end up buying after seeing an ad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

It’s the tech that’s powering its creepy glasses, its open-source coding model, and now its bid into the battle of personal agents that will basically turn the experience of scrolling online into a water slide.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

Foaly tapped a key on his laptop, scrolling through Artemis’s vital statistics.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

The outline is elegant, and the scrollings delicate.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various

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