diff --git a/pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi b/pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi
index 30b545270..540baf690 100644
--- a/pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi
+++ b/pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ from pandas._typing import (
     FilePath,
     FillnaOptions,
     FormattersType,
+    Frequency,
     GroupByObjectNonScalar,
     HashableT,
     HashableT1,
@@ -855,7 +856,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
     def shift(
         self,
         periods: int = ...,
-        freq=...,
+        freq: Frequency | dt.timedelta | None = ...,
         axis: Axis = ...,
         fill_value: Hashable | None = ...,
     ) -> Self: ...
diff --git a/pandas-stubs/core/series.pyi b/pandas-stubs/core/series.pyi
index f6afe8e53..393ad4ccc 100644
--- a/pandas-stubs/core/series.pyi
+++ b/pandas-stubs/core/series.pyi
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ from pandas._typing import (
     FilePath,
     FillnaOptions,
     FloatDtypeArg,
+    Frequency,
     GroupByObjectNonScalar,
     HashableT1,
     IgnoreRaise,
@@ -1219,10 +1220,10 @@ class Series(IndexOpsMixin[S1], NDFrame):
     def shift(
         self,
         periods: int = ...,
-        freq=...,
+        freq: Frequency | timedelta | None = ...,
         axis: AxisIndex = ...,
         fill_value: object | None = ...,
-    ) -> Series[S1]: ...
+    ) -> Series: ...
     def memory_usage(self, index: _bool = ..., deep: _bool = ...) -> int: ...
     def isin(self, values: Iterable | Series[S1] | dict) -> Series[_bool]: ...
     def between(
diff --git a/tests/test_frame.py b/tests/test_frame.py
index eb2fcdc97..53b581e6d 100644
--- a/tests/test_frame.py
+++ b/tests/test_frame.py
@@ -516,10 +516,13 @@ def test_types_sort_values_with_key() -> None:
 
 
 def test_types_shift() -> None:
-    df = pd.DataFrame(data={"col1": [1, 1], "col2": [3, 4]})
-    df.shift()
-    df.shift(1)
-    df.shift(-1)
+    df = pd.DataFrame(
+        data={"col1": [1, 1], "col2": [3, 4]}, index=pd.date_range("2020", periods=2)
+    )
+    check(assert_type(df.shift(), pd.DataFrame), pd.DataFrame)
+    check(assert_type(df.shift(1), pd.DataFrame), pd.DataFrame)
+    check(assert_type(df.shift(-1), pd.DataFrame), pd.DataFrame)
+    check(assert_type(df.shift(freq="1D"), pd.DataFrame), pd.DataFrame)
 
 
 def test_types_rank() -> None:
diff --git a/tests/test_series.py b/tests/test_series.py
index 2857b9f60..2f9b0d63b 100644
--- a/tests/test_series.py
+++ b/tests/test_series.py
@@ -416,10 +416,15 @@ def test_types_sort_values_with_key() -> None:
 
 
 def test_types_shift() -> None:
-    s = pd.Series([1, 2, 3])
-    s.shift()
-    s.shift(axis=0, periods=1)
-    s.shift(-1, fill_value=0)
+    s = pd.Series([1, 2, 3], index=pd.date_range("2020", periods=3))
+    check(assert_type(s.shift(), pd.Series), pd.Series, np.floating)
+    check(
+        assert_type(s.shift(axis=0, periods=1), pd.Series),
+        pd.Series,
+        np.floating,
+    )
+    check(assert_type(s.shift(-1, fill_value=0), pd.Series), pd.Series, np.integer)
+    check(assert_type(s.shift(freq="1D"), pd.Series), pd.Series, np.integer)
 
 
 def test_types_rank() -> None: