diff --git a/random.c b/random.c
index f3dec5cca2..dc7e4771cd 100644
--- a/random.c
+++ b/random.c
@@ -1816,9 +1816,6 @@ InitVM_Random(void)
     rb_define_method(rb_cRandom, "seed", random_get_seed, 0);
 #endif
 
-    rb_define_const(rb_cRandom, "DEFAULT", rb_cRandom);
-    rb_deprecate_constant(rb_cRandom, "DEFAULT");
-
     rb_define_singleton_method(rb_cRandom, "srand", rb_f_srand, -1);
     rb_define_singleton_method(rb_cRandom, "rand", random_s_rand, -1);
     rb_define_singleton_method(rb_cRandom, "bytes", random_s_bytes, 1);
diff --git a/spec/ruby/core/random/default_spec.rb b/spec/ruby/core/random/default_spec.rb
index 90d3b1720d..f9270ac7bb 100644
--- a/spec/ruby/core/random/default_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/ruby/core/random/default_spec.rb
@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
 require_relative '../../spec_helper'
 
-describe "Random::DEFAULT" do
-  it "returns a random number generator" do
-    suppress_warning do
-      Random::DEFAULT.should respond_to(:rand)
+ruby_version_is ''...'3.2' do
+  describe "Random::DEFAULT" do
+    it "returns a random number generator" do
+      suppress_warning do
+        Random::DEFAULT.should respond_to(:rand)
+      end
+    end
+
+    it "changes seed on reboot" do
+      seed1 = ruby_exe('p Random::DEFAULT.seed', options: '--disable-gems')
+      seed2 = ruby_exe('p Random::DEFAULT.seed', options: '--disable-gems')
+      seed1.should != seed2
     end
   end
-
-  it "changes seed on reboot" do
-    seed1 = ruby_exe('p Random::DEFAULT.seed', options: '--disable-gems')
-    seed2 = ruby_exe('p Random::DEFAULT.seed', options: '--disable-gems')
-    seed1.should != seed2
-  end
 end
diff --git a/test/ruby/test_rand.rb b/test/ruby/test_rand.rb
index 13b7329269..f066433f6a 100644
--- a/test/ruby/test_rand.rb
+++ b/test/ruby/test_rand.rb
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ class TestRand < Test::Unit::TestCase
     assert_equal(r1, r2, bug5661)
 
     assert_fork_status(1, '[ruby-core:82100] [Bug #13753]') do
-      Random::DEFAULT.rand(4)
+      Random.rand(4)
     end
   rescue NotImplementedError
   end
@@ -395,8 +395,8 @@ class TestRand < Test::Unit::TestCase
     assert_separately([], "#{<<~"begin;"}\n#{<<~'end;'}")
     begin;
       verbose, $VERBOSE = $VERBOSE, nil
-      seed = Random::DEFAULT::seed
-      rand1 = Random::DEFAULT::rand
+      seed = Random.seed
+      rand1 = Random.rand
       $VERBOSE = verbose
       rand2 = Random.new(seed).rand
       assert_equal(rand1, rand2)