diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3b66d31..a4825b8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ Please mark backwards incompatible changes with an exclamation mark at the start
 ## [Unreleased]
 
 ### Fixed
+- A `NameError` that was being raised when `jay_api/elasticsearch/client` was
+  required without requiring `elasticsearch`.
 - A `NoMethodError` that was being raised by `Elasticsearch::Stats::Indices`
   when `active_support/core_ext/string` hadn't been loaded.
 
diff --git a/lib/jay_api/elasticsearch/client.rb b/lib/jay_api/elasticsearch/client.rb
index 2507557..366d559 100644
--- a/lib/jay_api/elasticsearch/client.rb
+++ b/lib/jay_api/elasticsearch/client.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
-require 'elasticsearch/api/namespace/tasks'
+require 'timeout'
 require 'elasticsearch/transport/transport/errors'
 require 'faraday/error'
 require 'forwardable'