diff --git a/types/zeromq/index.d.ts b/types/zeromq/index.d.ts
index 189d60fc29..d1088aba8f 100644
--- a/types/zeromq/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/zeromq/index.d.ts
@@ -240,3 +240,14 @@ export function createSocket(type: string, options?: any): Socket;
  * @return The public and secret portions of the key.
  */
 export function curveKeypair(): CurveKeyPair;
+
+/**
+ * Connects a frontend socket to a backend socket.
+ * @param frontend The frontend socket to connect with the backend socket.
+ *                 Frontend socket should be a 'push', 'pull', 'xpub', 'router' or 'xrep' socket.
+ * @param backend The backend socket to connect with the frontend socket.
+ *                Backend socket should be a 'pull', 'push', 'xsub', 'dealer' or 'xreq' socket.
+ * @param capture If defined, this socket will receive all messages from frontend and backend socket
+ *                Capture socket should be a 'pub', 'dealer', 'push' or 'pair' socket.
+ */
+export function proxy(frontend: Socket, backend: Socket, capture ?: Socket): void;
diff --git a/types/zeromq/zeromq-tests.ts b/types/zeromq/zeromq-tests.ts
index a1230957a7..466deaf4b7 100644
--- a/types/zeromq/zeromq-tests.ts
+++ b/types/zeromq/zeromq-tests.ts
@@ -48,3 +48,13 @@ function test6() {
     sock.pause();
     sock.resume();
 }
+
+function test7() {
+    const xPubSocket = zeromq.socket('xpub');
+    const xPSubSocket = zeromq.socket('xsub');
+
+    xPubSocket.bindSync(`tcp://127.0.0.1:3000`);
+    xPSubSocket.bindSync('tcp://127.0.0.1:3001');
+
+    zeromq.proxy(xPubSocket, xPSubSocket);
+}