diff --git a/Lib/test/test_interpreters.py b/Lib/test/test_interpreters.py
index 5981d96de8de06..662eafa3b7a104 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_interpreters.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_interpreters.py
@@ -464,6 +464,7 @@ def test_bytes_for_script(self):
     # test_xxsubinterpreters covers the remaining Interpreter.run() behavior.
 
 
+@unittest.skip('these are crashing, likely just due just to _xxsubinterpreters (see gh-105699)')
 class StressTests(TestBase):
 
     # In these tests we generally want a lot of interpreters,