Introduction to events for an online sports day. Also recommended for team building.
Opportunities to communicate using online meeting services like Zoom have increased, haven’t they?
Zoom has become popular not only for regular meetings and interviews, but also for casual online drinking hangouts.
For working professionals, we recommend hosting an online sports day.
By using online meeting services such as Zoom, participants can enjoy a variety of events while being in different locations, which helps improve communication and strengthen team unity.
In this article, we’ll introduce recommended activities for an online sports day—from physical challenges to brain games—so please use it as a reference.
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Introduction to events for an online sports day. Also recommended for team building (1–10)
Picture shiritori
If you want everyone to laugh and have fun together, picture shiritori is a great choice.
Normally, shiritori is played by saying words out loud, but in picture shiritori you play using only drawings.
That means you have to guess what the other person drew and continue with a word that starts with the final sound.
This way, multiple people can play, and no one will get bored while waiting.
If you want to make it more challenging, you can add a rule to draw with your left hand!
Online Borrowed-Item Race
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This is a game where you play the classic sports day “borrowing race” inside each person’s home.
Choose a questioner, and that person gives a prompt; the other participants search their own homes for an item that fits the prompt.
You compete on how quickly you can find something, while also judging whether it truly matches the prompt.
Simple prompts like “something yellow” are fun, but setting prompts like “something you’d recommend to others” can make it easier to spark conversation afterward.
Emergency Food Search Trial
It’s a little different from a competition, but I also recommend the Emergency Food Scavenger Trial as an event.
The Emergency Food Scavenger Trial is a challenge where you try making simple emergency meals using ingredients you already have at home.
It’s fun to see what’s in someone else’s fridge, of course, and it’s also useful as part of disaster preparedness.
You can save the emergency food you make, or use it as snacks for a get-together afterward! There are videos that introduce emergency food recipes as well, so be sure to check them out for ideas.
Introduction to events for an online sports day. Also great for team building (11–20)
Shake Shake
Shake Shake is an event for online sports days that everyone can join easily while boosting team communication.
Using an app that counts how many times you shake your smartphone, the person who shakes the most within the time limit wins.
Prepare your phone on the online screen and start when prompted by the host or a representative.
Since it’s all about shaking your phone as hard as you can, you’ll discover new sides of your teammates you don’t usually see! You can also heat things up by running team battles or a tournament.
What is this?! Search Battle
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“Nanikore!? Search Battle” is a game where players compete to see who can use web search to find an answer the fastest to prompts like, “What is the African-origin instrument where you pluck metal tines arranged on a box to play it?” It’s enjoyable as a recreational activity, and it can also help improve everyday search skills, so it might be worth adopting as a skill-building exercise for employees, especially at IT companies.
After the game, sharing how each person searched to find the answer quickly could help you discover search methods you didn’t know before.
Shiritori using only things found at home
Shiritori—the word-chain game that everyone’s played—gets a twist here.
Instead of linking only words, you play using actual objects.
Find something in your home that follows the previous player’s word, show it on camera, and pass the turn to the next person.
If you can surprise everyone with an unexpected item, the game will get even more exciting.
Since searching for objects can create little gaps of time, it might also work well as a filler between other activities or as a fun conversation starter.
Sock-wearing race
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For those looking for a body-movement event for an online sports day, we recommend the Sock-Putting Race.
It’s a simple yet thematic contest: see how many pairs of socks you can put on within the time limit.
Make sure to point your camera at your feet so viewers can see you putting on the socks.
It’s a crowd-pleaser that fires up the timekeeper, the host, and the audience alike.
Watching participants frantically pull on socks on screen really boosts the excitement of the online event.
Give it a try as an activity that strengthens team unity.