diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 14cafefaa2..ffe634cac5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ keywords = [
     "scraping",
 ]
 dependencies = [
-    "async-timeout>=5.0.1",
+    "async-timeout>=5.0.1; python_full_version < '3.11'",
     "cachetools>=5.5.0",
     "colorama>=0.4.0",
     "impit>=0.13.2",
diff --git a/src/crawlee/_utils/time.py b/src/crawlee/_utils/time.py
index 10d6fd3d8d..c6042916a7 100644
--- a/src/crawlee/_utils/time.py
+++ b/src/crawlee/_utils/time.py
@@ -1,17 +1,25 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import asyncio
+import sys
 import time
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from datetime import timedelta
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
-from async_timeout import Timeout, timeout
-
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from collections.abc import Iterator
     from types import TracebackType
 
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 11):
+    timeout_ctx = asyncio.timeout
+else:
+    # TODO: `async-timeout` backports `asyncio.timeout` for Python 3.10; drop once the
+    # project floor bump to 3.11
+    # https://github.com/apify/crawlee-python/issues/2052
+    from async_timeout import timeout as timeout_ctx  # type: ignore[no-redef]
+
 _SECONDS_PER_MINUTE = 60
 _SECONDS_PER_HOUR = 3600
 
@@ -46,7 +54,7 @@ class SharedTimeout:
 
     def __init__(self, timeout: timedelta) -> None:
         self._remaining_timeout = timeout
-        self._active_timeout: Timeout | None = None
+        self._active_timeout: asyncio.Timeout | None = None
         self._activation_timestamp: float | None = None
 
     async def __aenter__(self) -> timedelta:
@@ -54,7 +62,7 @@ async def __aenter__(self) -> timedelta:
             raise RuntimeError('A shared timeout context cannot be entered twice at the same time')
 
         self._activation_timestamp = time.monotonic()
-        self._active_timeout = new_timeout = timeout(self._remaining_timeout.total_seconds())
+        self._active_timeout = new_timeout = timeout_ctx(self._remaining_timeout.total_seconds())
         await new_timeout.__aenter__()
         return self._remaining_timeout
 
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index a02a8fe411..435b4cf983 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ name = "crawlee"
 version = "1.10.2"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
-    { name = "async-timeout" },
+    { name = "async-timeout", marker = "python_full_version < '3.11'" },
     { name = "cachetools" },
     { name = "colorama" },
     { name = "impit" },
@@ -1138,7 +1138,7 @@ requires-dist = [
     { name = "apify-fingerprint-datapoints", marker = "extra == 'httpx'", specifier = ">=0.0.2" },
     { name = "apify-fingerprint-datapoints", marker = "extra == 'playwright'", specifier = ">=0.0.2" },
     { name = "apify-fingerprint-datapoints", marker = "extra == 'stagehand'", specifier = ">=0.0.2" },
-    { name = "async-timeout", specifier = ">=5.0.1" },
+    { name = "async-timeout", marker = "python_full_version < '3.11'", specifier = ">=5.0.1" },
     { name = "asyncpg", marker = "extra == 'sql-postgres'", specifier = ">=0.24.0" },
     { name = "beautifulsoup4", extras = ["lxml"], marker = "extra == 'beautifulsoup'", specifier = ">=4.12.0" },
     { name = "browserforge", marker = "extra == 'adaptive-crawler'", specifier = ">=1.2.4" },