Team-based recreational activities for adults that are fun even with large groups
When you’re organizing company events like parties, in-house sports days, or welcome gatherings for new employees, it’s common to include some kind of recreation, right?
If it’s something you can do in teams, it builds a stronger sense of unity and makes it more fun for everyone.
Plus, offering prizes to the winning team can really liven things up, and at welcome parties it can be a great way to break the ice with people you’re meeting for the first time.
In this article, we’ll introduce a variety of team-based recreational activities that adults can enjoy!
They vary in how long they take, and some require very little preparation.
Choose the ones that best fit your event’s situation.
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Team-Based Recreational Activities for Adults That Large Groups Can Enjoy (21–30)
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This is a simple, easy-to-understand recreation where you pass a ball to others within a time limit! Ten people form a circle and keep passing a ball or balloon to the person next to them.
Once you get used to it, you can also throw or pass the ball or balloon to a specific person you’re aiming for.
When the timer signaling the time limit goes off, the person holding the ball or balloon loses! It’s also fun for each person to come up with and try out their own strategy.
It’s a heart-pounding game that treats the ball or balloon like a bomb.
Drawing Telephone Game
It seems like playing telephone with drawings is more challenging than using text or voice.
It’s the kind of game where you can participate with excitement, wondering if the theme will make it all the way from the starter to the final person.
In the video, they try the game online, but it also looks easy to adapt as a recreational activity using paper and pens! If children and adults are on the same team, the key might be the order in which they take turns in the drawing telephone game.
Adult Team-based Recreational Activities for Large Groups (31–40)
Pedometer showdown on an acupressure mat
You know that common recreation game where you wear a pedometer, move around a lot, and whoever racks up the most steps wins, right? Doing it as-is can be boring, so here’s a twist that makes your soles ache just hearing about it: play it on an acupressure mat.
You want to move to rack up steps, but the acupressure mat hurts… it’s a constant tug-of-war.
They say healthy people don’t find it painful, so maybe some ultra-healthy warriors will emerge!
No Katakana Game
Are you someone who’s good at explaining things to others, or not so good? Either way, let’s have fun with the “No-Katakana Game”! You take words we usually use in English or katakana as the topics.
The questioner has to describe the topic without using any English or katakana, and everyone present tries to guess it.
Even people who are good at explaining will find it tough to think carefully, choose their words, and avoid katakana—and they end up slipping in some Japanglish without meaning to (lol).
survival game
It’s a game where you advance into the opponent’s territory while hiding behind obstacles in the field, attack the opposing team with airsoft guns, and cooperate to reach set objectives.
Since the flow involves attacking while staying concealed, your team’s ability to devise strategy is really put to the test.
Using airsoft guns might sound dangerous, but as long as you wear the recommended gear, anyone can enjoy safe skirmishes.
When you’re hit, you call yourself out—good manners from everyone are important in this game.
Precisely because it’s a simulated combat experience, it really feels like it strengthens team bonds.
Weird relay
By adding rule variations to a relay where team members run in turn, you can enjoy it as a more complex event.
When it’s a person’s turn, they carry out specified actions while thinking them through, cooperate as a team to meet the conditions, and aim for victory—that’s the general flow.
Introducing thinking elements—such as a game inspired by bingo where teams align rows by their team color—creates more opportunities for people who aren’t confident in athletics to shine.
By combining various victory conditions, you can also build excitement through different strategic approaches.
Caricature Quiz
This is a game where team members draw caricatures of each other, and then everyone tries to find the one that depicts themselves from the completed set.
A key point is that each caricature must be drawn in one minute, which tests not only drawing skill but also the ability to observe and capture distinctive features.
Because time is limited, the drawings inevitably become rough sketches, which might lead to a uniquely quirky visual world.
Of course, making an easy-to-understand caricature matters, but so does the ability to interpret who each drawing represents—making it an activity that tests team bonds.