diff --git a/Doc/library/threading.rst b/Doc/library/threading.rst
index 5d9a7b6314b1668..d73248bcd3a42dc 100644
--- a/Doc/library/threading.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/threading.rst
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ creating and starting threads using :class:`~threading.Thread`::
        "https://peps.python.org",
    ]
 
-   # Start threads for each link
+   # Create a thread for each link
    threads = []
    for link in links:
        # Using `args` to pass positional arguments and `kwargs` for keyword arguments