diff --git a/telegram/_bot.py b/telegram/_bot.py
index 9f2cd246723..a6b46600269 100644
--- a/telegram/_bot.py
+++ b/telegram/_bot.py
@@ -3586,7 +3586,7 @@ async def get_updates(
         self,
         offset: Optional[int] = None,
         limit: Optional[int] = None,
-        timeout: Optional[float] = None,
+        timeout: Optional[int] = None,
         allowed_updates: Optional[Sequence[str]] = None,
         *,
         read_timeout: float = 2,
diff --git a/telegram/ext/_application.py b/telegram/ext/_application.py
index af292167251..7452e4c9c52 100644
--- a/telegram/ext/_application.py
+++ b/telegram/ext/_application.py
@@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ def run_polling(
         Args:
             poll_interval (:obj:`float`, optional): Time to wait between polling updates from
                 Telegram in seconds. Default is ``0.0``.
-            timeout (:obj:`float`, optional): Passed to
+            timeout (:obj:`int`, optional): Passed to
                 :paramref:`telegram.Bot.get_updates.timeout`. Default is ``10`` seconds.
             bootstrap_retries (:obj:`int`, optional): Whether the bootstrapping phase of the
                 :class:`telegram.ext.Updater` will retry on failures on the Telegram server.
diff --git a/telegram/ext/_extbot.py b/telegram/ext/_extbot.py
index 704957fcdbd..c0f37efd9a5 100644
--- a/telegram/ext/_extbot.py
+++ b/telegram/ext/_extbot.py
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ async def get_updates(
         self,
         offset: Optional[int] = None,
         limit: Optional[int] = None,
-        timeout: Optional[float] = None,
+        timeout: Optional[int] = None,
         allowed_updates: Optional[Sequence[str]] = None,
         *,
         read_timeout: float = 2,
diff --git a/telegram/ext/_updater.py b/telegram/ext/_updater.py
index 993091543c9..231500b1542 100644
--- a/telegram/ext/_updater.py
+++ b/telegram/ext/_updater.py
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ async def start_polling(
         Args:
             poll_interval (:obj:`float`, optional): Time to wait between polling updates from
                 Telegram in seconds. Default is ``0.0``.
-            timeout (:obj:`float`, optional): Passed to
+            timeout (:obj:`int`, optional): Passed to
                 :paramref:`telegram.Bot.get_updates.timeout`. Defaults to ``10`` seconds.
             bootstrap_retries (:obj:`int`, optional): Whether the bootstrapping phase of the
                 :class:`telegram.ext.Updater` will retry on failures on the Telegram server.