texting

noun

text·​ing ˈtek-stiŋ 

: the act or activity of sending text messages from one cell phone to another

When I moved to Chicago, I used a paper map that folded in your lap to navigate the city. There was no Internet, no e-mail, no texting …

—Amy Poehler

Texting freed a generation from the strictures and inconvenience (and awkwardness) of phone calls, while allowing people to be more loosely and constantly connected.

—Jenna Wortham

Examples of texting in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In its place came extensive texting, social media, and, in late 2022, AI companions. —Rachel Konrad, Time, 9 Dec. 2025

Both the Mini 3 and Messenger Plus pair with the Messenger app, and that’s where most people will do their texting, voice-messaging, and photo-sharing. —Benjamin Tepler, Outside, 6 Dec. 2025

Scammers typically carry out these impersonation scams by calling, emailing, texting, and messaging victims on social media, Amazon said on its website. —Saleen Martin, USA Today, 28 Nov. 2025

Investigators say the messages relied on unregulated voter-data sources and anonymous texting apps. —Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1999, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for texting

• bowstring
• coiling
• downswing
• drawstring
• forewing
• hamstring
• lapwing
• mainspring
• offspring
• plaything
• shoestring
• upswing