Regret over sharing at a work function? Tired of nursing a hangover while trying to meet a deadline? We know the feeling, which is why we’ve found ten alcohol-free team-bonding activities that’ll give you quality, out-of-office time with your co-workers – without the stinking headache.
Your ammunition is paint and your battlefield is Sydney. Shoot at rival office members in colourful combat. Suit up in camouflage gear and run around the course, hiding or attacking – depending on how popular you are in the office.
Group size: 16+.Just like the TV show, Sydney’s Amazing Race includes challenges like detours, yields and roadblocks and comes with famous sealed yellow envelopes of clues. You’ll feel like a TV celebrity as you make your way through checkpoints across the city, especially knowing that the course is custom designed especially for your race.
Group size: 5+.
Cost: From $65.
Booking time: 2 weeks in advance.
Try something new and round up the office staff to throw some axes at wooden targets. Each session comes with individual coaching and target practice, followed by a tournament to determine who will be crowned the champion axe thrower.
Group size: 8-45.
Cost: $50pp.
Booking time: 1 week in advance.
Carve up the field with Bubble Football – and yes, it’s exactly as it sounds. Shoot goals and dribble past opponents in a giant inflatable bubble. Have no fear if you’re a soccer newbie, there’s loads of cushioning to soften your fall.
Group size: 8-40.
Cost: From $30.
Booking time: 2 months in advance for weekends, 1 week in advance for weekdays.
Earn ingredients by winning food challenges, then craft an entrée, pizza and dessert in My Pizza Rules! The season finale is a spectacular feast of all the teams’ creations. Packages come with cooking utensils, pizza oven and ingredients.
Group size: 25-300.
Imagine being locked in a room with your colleagues and the only way out is through the magic of brainpower. Test your intellect with six game rooms that offer three different adventures – but don’t let the clock tick down to zero; you might be trapped with your workmates forever.
Group size: 12-72.Got a bank of general knowledge up your sleeve? Maybe you’re a movie buff, wine connoisseur or music maestro? Either way, there’ll be rounds of good, old-fashioned trivia fun in which to challenge your colleagues.
Group size: 20-300.
Cost: From $800.
Booking time: 2 weeks in advance.
Test yourself in this ultimate high ropes adventure park. Choose from five courses, four flying foxes and over 50 aerial activities and you’ll find yourself swinging, leaping and flying in no time at all.
Group size: 15-200.Discover Time Out original video
