diff --git a/discord/client.py b/discord/client.py
index d92b568a0..13f00220b 100644
--- a/discord/client.py
+++ b/discord/client.py
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ class Client:
         self._closed = False
         self._ready.clear()
         self._connection.clear()
-        self.http.recreate()
+        self.http.clear()
 
     async def start(self, token: str, *, reconnect: bool = True) -> None:
         """|coro|
diff --git a/discord/http.py b/discord/http.py
index c06865f9f..5f011eb71 100644
--- a/discord/http.py
+++ b/discord/http.py
@@ -351,11 +351,9 @@ class HTTPClient:
         user_agent = 'DiscordBot (https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py {0}) Python/{1[0]}.{1[1]} aiohttp/{2}'
         self.user_agent: str = user_agent.format(__version__, sys.version_info, aiohttp.__version__)
 
-    def recreate(self) -> None:
-        if self.__session.closed:
-            self.__session = aiohttp.ClientSession(
-                connector=self.connector, ws_response_class=DiscordClientWebSocketResponse
-            )
+    def clear(self) -> None:
+        if self.__session and self.__session.closed:
+            self.__session = MISSING
 
     async def ws_connect(self, url: str, *, compress: int = 0) -> aiohttp.ClientWebSocketResponse:
         kwargs = {