diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
index 631a5ddc1f6500..9a42b963167685 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ To actually run a coroutine, asyncio provides the following mechanisms:
 
               print(f"started at {time.strftime('%X')}")
 
-          # The wait is implicit when the context manager exits.
+          # The await is implicit when the context manager exits.
 
           print(f"finished at {time.strftime('%X')}")