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A Tabaxi, after using his Feline Agility trait to double his movement speed for a turn, must then move 0 feet on a subsequent turn in order for his trait to recharge.
If the Tabaxi teleports, does it count as movement for his trait? (If so, this means that the trait won't recharge on that turn.)
Movement is a defined term in the game. On pages 181-182 of the PHB it goes into how movement works. Teleportation doesn't use movement or speed, so you could teleport via misty step, dimension door or the like without spending movement on that turn. Spells are generally an action or bonus action to cast but don't cost movement. Similarly, if you misty step 30 feet away, you can still use your movement to get even farther.
No, it does not.
All forms of teleportation in the game use actions (or bonus actions, or maybe reactions) to use; none of them use movement, and thus none of them would prevent recharging the Feline Agility.
The dimension door spell description states, in part:
You teleport yourself from your current location to any other spot within range. You arrive at exactly the spot desired. It can be a place you can see, one you can visualize, or one you can describe by stating distance and direction, such as "200 feet straight downward" or "upward to the northwest at a 45- degree angle, 300 feet."
Nowhere in the description of this spell does it say that "the caster casts the spell, then must step through a door that appears", which would use up movement.
Therefore, it depends on what type of teleport they're using.
If they were to use the arcane gate spell (PHB, p. 214), for example, then it would require stepping into the circle:
You create linked teleportation portals that remain open for the duration. Choose two points on the ground that you can see, one point within 10 feet of you and one point within 500 feet of you. A circular portal, 10 feet in diameter, opens over each point. If the portal would open in the space occupied by a creature, the spell fails, and the casting is lost.
The portals are two-dimensional glowing rings filled with mist, hovering inches from the ground and perpendicular to it at the points you choose. A ring is visible only from one side (your choice), which is the side that functions as a portal.
Any creature or object entering the portal exits from the other portal as if the two were adjacent to each other; passing through a portal from the nonportal side has no effect. The mist that fills each portal is opaque and blocks vision through it. On your turn, you can rotate the rings as a bonus action so that the active side faces in a different direction.
