diff --git a/pandas-stubs/core/tools/timedeltas.pyi b/pandas-stubs/core/tools/timedeltas.pyi
index aa2c34ac..38ed0c07 100644
--- a/pandas-stubs/core/tools/timedeltas.pyi
+++ b/pandas-stubs/core/tools/timedeltas.pyi
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ from pandas._libs.tslibs.timedeltas import TimeDeltaUnitChoices
 from pandas._typing import (
     ArrayLike,
     RaiseCoerce,
+    SequenceNotStr,
 )
 
 @overload
@@ -31,8 +32,8 @@ def to_timedelta(
 @overload
 def to_timedelta(
     arg: (
-        Sequence[float | timedelta]
-        | list[str | float | timedelta]
+        SequenceNotStr
+        | Sequence[float | timedelta]
         | tuple[str | float | timedelta, ...]
         | range
         | ArrayLike
diff --git a/tests/test_timefuncs.py b/tests/test_timefuncs.py
index e3dcb9a8..a61bb92c 100644
--- a/tests/test_timefuncs.py
+++ b/tests/test_timefuncs.py
@@ -140,6 +140,11 @@ def test_timedelta_series_arithmetic() -> None:
     r4: pd.TimedeltaIndex = tds1 / 10.2
 
 
+def test_timedelta_series_string() -> None:
+    seq_list = ["1 day"]
+    check(assert_type(pd.to_timedelta(seq_list), pd.TimedeltaIndex), pd.TimedeltaIndex)
+
+
 def test_timestamp_timedelta_series_arithmetic() -> None:
     ts1 = pd.to_datetime(pd.Series(["2022-03-05", "2022-03-06"]))
     assert isinstance(ts1.iloc[0], pd.Timestamp)