Over 150 Icebreaker Questions to Use in Your Next Virtual Training

May 15

Icebreaker questions are great for the start of meetings, brain breaks during a longer team meeting, and team bonding with Team Trivia. Some could even be used in interviewing your next team member!

I've divided icebreakers up into a few categories for easy grab & go:

Work & Routine
All About You
What Would You Do?
Would You Rather?
That or That?
Favorite Things

Here are some ways to start using icebreakers in a virtual setting:

Ask a question in a poll as people are entering a meeting. Have a couple of volunteers explain their answer.
Pose the question as a process of elimination activity. Example: Type an emoji in the chat if you have visited 2 countries or more. (Keep increasing until there's one person left.) This type of activity can be framed around nearly any topic.

Remember, questions can be repeated periodically or posed in a different angle, so you'll never run out of icebreakers. Use this list as a starting point, and add more if you want to keep your own bucket of questions.

Work & Routine

What's your favorite part of working remotely?
What do you miss about working in a busy office?
What's the most difficult thing about working remotely?
Do you work from one spot or move around throughout the day?
What part of the day are you most energized?
Have you found a morning routine that works well for you?
What time of the day do you like to exercise?
Do you always eat breakfast or do you skip it?
What did you eat for breakfast today?
Are you a morning person or a night person?
Do you drink your coffee hot or iced?
How do you get exercise done on workdays?
Which app do you use most frequently?
Would you rather work from a beach cabana or a mountain cabin?
Where is your dream location to work from?
Would you rather start early or work late?
What is the most unique thing you have within reach of your desk?
Do you have any remote work productivity hacks?
What work from home habit is most productive for you?
What was the best meeting you've ever attended?
What was the best part of your day today?
What is typically your favorite part of a day off from work?
What's your dream job?
What would you do for a living if you won the lottery?

All About You

Have you met anyone famous?
What piece of advice do you give the most?
What TV show are you currently binge watching?
What's the last movie you watched?
What's the last book you read / audiobook you listened to?
Do you keep a garden at home?
What podcasts do you listen to regularly?
What is the most interesting online article you’ve read lately?
What is the last YouTube video you watched?
What was the first thing you wanted to be when you grew up?
What game did you play the most as a child?
How would you describe your sense of humor?
How would others describe your sense of humor?
Are you an introvert or extrovert?
What's your biggest pet peeve?
What social behaviors make you unique?
What was your first online screen name?
What actor/actress would play you in a movie about your life?
What emoji do you use most often?
What's the most embarrassing fashion trend you used to wear?
What fashion trend do you secretly wish came back?
What invention did you think of first?
What's your go-to karaoke song?
What fictional character do you want to hang out with?
What’s the weirdest food you’ve ever eaten?
What 5 items do you always keep in your refrigerator?
Where did you grow up?
Do you have any pets?
What is the first website you remember visiting?
What is your earliest memory of the internet?
How many states have you been to?
What’s the longest flight you’ve ever taken?
What’s the longest distance you’ve ever walked/run?
What was the first album you listened to?
What color was your bedroom as a teenager?
What was the hardest class you ever took?
What’s a fact about you that nobody would guess?
What’s the worst misspelling of your name you’ve ever seen?
What was the first concert you went to?
What was the most recent concert you went to?
Do you have any strange regional names for things where you're from?
What do you think is the greatest invention in your lifetime so far?
What was your childhood nickname?
What’s something that everyone else seems to like that you don’t?
What always makes you laugh?
What is the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
Do you collect anything?
When was the last time you turned your phone off or left it at home?
What was the first thing you saved money to buy on your own?
What three words would your best friend use to describe you?
What is the scariest fear you’ve ever conquered?
What’s the best gift you’ve ever given to someone?

What Would You Do?

What fictional place would you want to visit for a day?
How do you spend the extra hour if there were 25 hours a day?
If you could live anywhere in the world for a year, where would it be?
If you could teleport, where would you go?
Which famous person would you have dinner with?
If you had a personal assistant, what would they do?
If you could become an expert in something, what would it be?
If you had to teach a class on one thing, what would you teach?
If you could become fluent in any language, what would it be?
If you could be on a reality TV show, which one would you choose?
If you could remove one thing from your routine, what would it be?
If you were in the Olympics, what event would you be competing in?
If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
You can have an unlimited supply of one item, what would it be?
If you had a paid year off work, how would you spend it?
If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
If you could guest star on any television show, who would you play?

Would You Rather?

Would you rather live on the moon or a deserted island?
Would you rather travel back in time or into the future?
Would you rather explore a new planet or the depths of the ocean?
Would you rather lose all of your money or all of your photos?
Would you rather be able to fly or be invisible?
Would you rather live in year-round summer or year-round winter?
Would you rather lose your phone or your computer?
Would you rather live without A/C or social media?
Would you rather be the funniest or smartest person in the room?
Would you rather win $1 million now or $10 million over 30 years?
Would you rather have a small dinner party with your 5 closest friends or a giant party with everyone you know?