- present participle of scroll.
scrolling
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scrollings
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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.
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Digital Technology. doomscrolling.
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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
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The outline is elegant, and the scrollings delicate.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various
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