Remote team-building ideas
Explore our favorite games, book clubs, fitness sessions, and more to build a strong remote culture!
As a remote-first company, Virtual Internships has experience organizing engaging virtual team-building activities. Our People Operations team has compiled a list of resources and activities we use to foster connection and collaboration among remote teams:
Games to play:
- Escape room/scavenger challenge: Gather
- Trivia or quiz competition: Kahoot
- Board games: Code name, Pandemic, Monopoly. This website is a library of board games. Feel free to check these board games in your team-building session.
- Word games: Word with Friends, Scattergories, Boggle
- Card games: Playing cards, bad cards, UNO
- Other games: Pogo, Paper games, Crazy games
Video call tools: Tired of Google Meets and Zoom calls? Try these alternatives:
Other activities:
- Online book club or movie night
- Create a book club and use discussion guides
- Discussion guides: Resource 1, resource 2
- Find what to read and share them with peers
- Host a movie night using:
- Teleparty – Watch movies with real-time chat and sync (supports Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, etc.)
- Rave – Stream movies, share playlists, and host karaoke nights.
- Scener – Requires all participants to have a streaming subscription.
- Kast – Free for YouTube and Tubi; small fee for Netflix, Hulu, etc.
- Metastream – Streams movies from URLs, with queue and private room features.
- Online fitness sessions:
- Online cooking or mixology class
- Cooking resources: Resource 1, resource 2, resource 3
- Mixology resources: Resource 1, resource 2
- Other fun activities:
- Virtual talent shows: Resource 1, resource 2
- Icebreakers and mini games: Activity ideas
For more inspiration, explore these resources on remote and hybrid team-building: