50 Best Virtual Team Building Activities for Remote Teams

10 Common Things

Divvy up your team into small groups and task them with listing 10 things they ALL have in common. This can be in an online doc or on a digital whiteboard. Plus, you can choose a topic (like hobbies or food) or let them brainstorm freely.

50 States Challenge

Split your team into groups and work against the clock to name all 50 states in the U.S. The best part? It’s a fun, quick game you can play with an unlimited number of people.

Bookclub

If you have lots of literary aficionados on your team, organize a weekly or monthly book club. Each cycle, choose a book that interests the group. Then schedule a virtual meetup to discuss characters, plot lines, or themes as you go. Or discuss after everyone’s finished the book.

DIY Craft Challenge

Grab a timer, set it for 60 minutes. Then tell everyone on the team they have an hour to build something with whatever’s around them. It could be paperclips, sticky notes, pencils — you name it. At the end of the hour, everyone shares their craft on-screen and votes for their favorites.

Experience The B.E.S.T.

Keep everyone pumped as you work as a team through multiple mini-games. Each of which is the B.E.S.T.! Boosting, engaging, short, and totally fun!

Fit Teams, Strong Teams

Promote health and wellbeing with Jambar’s Fit Teams, Strong Teams. It’s a fun series of virtual fitness courses. They’re perfect for any remote team member, of any skill level. Courses cover yoga, HIIT, and everything in between.

GIF Battles

Spice up working remotely with a little laughter. Create a new Slack channel and hold a GIF competition. Team members get to drop GIFs in the channel and vote. Whoever has the most votes, wins the battle!

Get The Most Fun, In 60 Seconds Time!

Amp up the fun with a bunch of fast-paced mini-games that are ready to play remotely in 60 seconds or less! Challenge your team mentally and physically. And build stronger team connections at the same time.

Green Impulse

Inspire your team to work together for a good (or should we say green) cause. Work through each module of Green Impulse to learn how to fly an aircraft. And guess what … it’s powered by renewable, sustainable energy.

Guess the Country

Test your remote team’s geography skills with this quick and fun game. Split up your team into groups and start moving through the alphabet. Teams have to name a country starting with that letter, and whoever says a country first gets a point. Keep score because the team that gets the most points by the end of the alphabet wins.

Guess the Artist

Ask everyone on your team to draw or choose an image that best represents themselves. Take turns showing the image onscreen and let the group guess who the picture belongs to. Once the group guesses, the person it belongs to gets to share a quick story behind the image.

Innovative Minds Make Wonders!

Put each team member in the spotlight and watch as their creativity comes to life! This online group activity is designed to reduce anxiety. Plus, it’ll elevate moods as each member unleashes their imagination.

Interactive Social Bonding

Focus on interactivity and online bonding with up to 8 different challenges. This series includes virtual team building games like trivia, riddles, and more! Each activity gets your team talking, bonding, and discussing … no matter where they are in the world.

Mindfulness & Meditation

Support a more mindful team by giving everyone time throughout the day to pause and meditate. Encourage your team to journal, write down what’s bothering them, or take note of something they appreciate. At the end of the half-hour, open the discussion so members can share if they wish.

Mister Rogers Calls

Get to know your virtual work neighbors with 30-minute coffee chats each week. Start by assigning coffee chat partners, then gab away for a half-hour about anything you want. The only rule is you can’t talk about work!

Never Have I Ever

Start by saying “never have I ever.” Follow it up with something exciting you’ve never done, like visiting a foreign country. Everyone in the group holds ten fingers up. And anyone who has visited another country then puts a finger down. The next person lists something they’ve never done. So on and so on until there’s one person left with at least one finger up.

Niagara Falls (Water Challenge)

Encourage your team to live healthier with an ongoing game of Niagara Falls. It’s a water challenge where team members post a water emoji for every bottle of water they drink. At the end of the day (or week or month), whoever posted the most water emojis wins.

No Smiling

This one’s simple, but effective. Choose someone in the group to be “it” — and their goal is to go as long as possible without smiling. The catch is that everyone else has one job: to make that person smile or laugh. Get ready for some belly laughs!

Pulse Employee Engagement Quiz

Check out PulseMate to get a birds-eye view of your team and how each member is feeling. Each week, send out a survey to your remote team and give them some time to fill it out. Then, read the results and check in with the team to brainstorm ways to improve morale.

Quiz About Employees

Introduce new employees and get them integrated with the rest of the team. Have new members create short presentations about themselves, complete with trivia questions. Distribute the quiz at the end of the presentation. Whichever team member gets the most right answers, wins!

Read My Lips

If you want to get your group giggling, this is THE game for you. Have one person in the group turn off their mic and say a phrase on camera. Everyone else tries to read their lips and guess the phrase. The team member with the highest number of correct guesses wins!

Round Robin Recognition

Everyone likes a little appreciation now and then. And Round Robin Recognition does just that. Start your next meeting by giving each team member the chance to “shout out” two other members. Each shout-out recognizes something positive another staff member accomplished … big or small.

Shazam

Shazam is great for bonding, and for improving listening comprehension skills. Pull up Spotify, iTunes, or YouTube and play a song that’s popular with your team. Whoever calls out the song title and artist first, gets a point. Whoever gets the most points, wins.

Spelling Bee

Have a lot of wordsmiths on your team? Organize a virtual spelling bee with your team and ask them to spell words one at a time. To make it challenging, make the words harder with each round.

Sun Salutation

Sitting at a desk all day isn’t great for neck, back, and shoulder pain. This is true whether you work remotely or not. But Jambar’s Sun Salutation starts every day the right way with guided, remote exercises. Plus, it’s structured as a competitive challenge to get everyone motivated.

The Ultimate Cook-Off Challenge

Bring out everyone’s inner chef in this fun, relaxing online team building activity. Each team member works together to make a full-course meal … remotely! Get family members in the mix to encourage even more team bonding.

The Virtual Amazing Race Challenge

Virtually travel to cities and countries all over the world with your remote team. Explore together, play games, and solve puzzles as a team to make the most of your adventure.

Theme Photo Contest

Get those creative juices flowing with a quick game of Theme Photo Contest. Start by choosing a weekly theme (like coffee or pets). Everyone on the team has to choose or create a photo that best represents the theme. Let the team vote and whoever has the most gets to choose the theme for next week.

Tiny Campfire

Although you can “play” Tiny Campfire any time of year, it’s perfect for fall and winter. Have everyone on your team roast marshmallows over tiny tea lights. You can make some s’mores, and have some lighthearted convos or play trivia.

Together We Paint

There’s more than one way to play this creative game. A few days before the activity, we’ll send each team member a box of art supplies. And it’s up to the group, and each individual member, to create a masterpiece.

Tree or Bob Ross

One person secretly chooses an object or concept (like a football, or time travel). Everyone else in the group has to ask them questions to figure out what they’ve chosen. The added twist is that the first question has to be “is it more like a tree, or more like Bob Ross?” — and the answer is carried forward into the next question. For example, the next question could be “is it more like Bob Ross, or more like an apple?”

Two Truths & A Lie

This is a party-style game that gets people thinking. Give each player a chance to share two facts about themselves, and one thing that’s totally made up. When it’s your turn, your goal is to stump the rest of the group — so don’t be afraid to have some fun.

Typing Speed Race

Send everyone in your group a link to TypeRacer (or any other online typing game). Compete to type the most amount of words. Whoever gets the highest score, wins. For larger groups, break off into small teams. You can organize winners into a bracket to keep the competition going.

Uncover Your Superpowers

If your team already knows one another well, break through another layer by digging deep. Have each person take a strength assessment, then take turns sharing their results. This game highlights what everyone is good at. And it gives people a chance to get to know their coworkers on an even deeper level.

Virtual Birthday Parties

Let loose and celebrate each team member’s birthday with a virtual hangout. Take some time out of the day to virtually share some cake, fun stories, and a couple of laughs. Don’t forget to sing Happy Birthday all at once!

Virtual City Tour

Check Airbnb and other apps to find local hosts who will give you a virtual tour of their city. Think New York, London, Paris, and more. Get everyone on a call to see the sights and ask the tour guide questions. You might just learn something new!

Virtual Cocktail Session

Cocktails, trivia, and online team building — what else could you ask for? Let Jambar lead your team through a series of virtual cocktail challenges (and lessons!). Then sit back, relax, and watch as your team learns new skills and bonds like never before.

Virtual Debate Club

Remember debate club in high school or college? It’s making a comeback, and this time, it’s for virtual team building. Start by choosing a topic and splitting up your group into two teams. Give everyone enough time to gather their arguments, then let the debate begin.

Virtual Dinner & Dance

Let your team dance the stress away with a virtual dinner and dance party hosted by Jambar. We’ll bring the music, the activities, and the fun. All you need is a great plate of food and your best dance moves.

Virtual Escape: Diamond Heist

Get ready to put your cat burglar hats on because your team is going to steal some diamonds. Break up into teams and figure out the best way to reach the top of a billionaire’s penthouse. Get the diamonds … and then get out!

Virtual Escape: Space Survival

Split your group up into teams and work together to repair your spaceship before time runs out! It’s a game of observation, creative problem solving, and communication. Plus, you’ll get to work through mind-boggling clues to get back to Earth.

Virtual Holiday Parties

There’s a holiday nearly every month of the year. If you want to celebrate the New Year of Thanksgiving, all it takes is scheduling a virtual meeting. Take a half-hour every holiday to have some fun together. Chat about life and eat some afternoon snacks with your remote team.

Virtual Show & Tell

Everyone likes sharing something they love with people they care about. Schedule a quick show and tell session each day or week. And let one person show something they’re interested in on-screen and talk about it. You’ll be surprised how many people share common interests.

Virtual Team Building Bingo

Everyone loves a good game of bingo — especially remote teams. It’s quick, it’s easy, and it’s fun. Start with a template or a free online app, call out those numbers, and wait until someone calls BINGO!

Virtual Treasure Hunt: Redbeard’s Treasure

Level up your planning, observation, and creative skills, matey! Start with your team and a map. Then work through challenges to find the treasure before the other teams do.

Visual Thinking

Practice breaking down complex ideas and brush up on some communication skills. This activity helps develop “visual vocabularies” to better share ideas with others.

What Would You Do?

Break your group up into teams and give them a list of hypothetical questions. Watch as your remote teams discuss fun, interesting, and puzzling topics. It’s designed to build connections and up the engagement.

Who Said This?

Put together a list of well-known TV quotes and reach each one out loud to your remote team one by one. Whoever guesses the line first gets a point. And whoever has the most points when you reach the end of the list wins the game.

Whose Office Is It Anyway?

Get everyone on the team to take a photo of their remote office or workspace. Each member uploads their photo into a shared folder. Go through each photo one by one and get the team to guess which workspace belongs to whom.