Scroll Through Feed: Meaning, Usage & Examples

Meaning 1：browse feed (Scroll through feed)

Scroll through feed 🔊

/skroʊl θruː fiːd/

phr.v.

To move your finger on a screen to look at new posts or updates in a social media or news app.

Person scrolling through social media feed on smartphone

browse feed 🔊

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/braʊz fiːd/

phr.v.

To move one's finger across a touchscreen to view new content posted in a social media or news feed.

📁 Category：Behaviors & Actions 🔖 Level：beginner

📘 Details & Usage

📖 Root Explanation

Scroll (Old Fr. escrouler), through (OE þurh), feed (OE fēdan).

💡 Mnemonic

Imagine your finger scrolling like a roller through a never-ending feed of photos.

📖 Example

While waiting for the bus, she scrolled through her feed to see her friend's vacation photos. 🔊 While waiting for the bus, she scrolled through her feed to see her friend's vacation photos.

🔗 Collocations

scroll through a feed – move through a list of updates on a screen

scroll through your feed – browse your personal social media timeline

scroll through the news feed – look at the stream of news articles

🔄 Synonyms

browse (v.) – to look through content casually

swipe (v.) – to move a finger across a screen to navigate

skim (v.) – to read or look through quickly

🚫 Antonyms

stop scrolling (phr.) – to cease moving through the feed

close the app (phr.) – to exit the application, ending the browsing

🌱 Derivatives

scrolling (n.) – the action of moving through content

feeder (n.) – a person or thing that supplies a feed (less common)

📖 Cultural Story

The phrase 'scroll through feed' emerged with smartphones and social media (2010s), describing the common gesture of browsing a continuous stream of updates.