The grain‐boundary resistivity of tetragonal zirconia polycrystals, which had undergone creep with different applied compressive loads and at different temperatures, has been measured with impedance spectroscopy. A stress exponent of unity was determined from strain rate versus stress data. The grain‐boundary resistivity decreased significantly with increasing stress at a constant creep temperature indicating squeezing out of the glassy phase from interfaces between grains. This, however, had no effect on the activation energy for the grain‐boundary resistivity. Copyright © 1990, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved