Team Building Activities
For most people, “team building” is something to be survived. The word gets announced and the room quietly deflates, because everyone’s picturing the same forced trust falls and name-game icebreakers they’ve sat through before. Great Race exists because it doesn’t have to be that way. We run team building activities that people genuinely enjoy, built around formats everyone already knows and hosted by professional actors who know how to make a day land.
Since 2009 we’ve run more than 500 events a year for corporate teams, schools, and social groups right across Australia. We’re fully mobile, so wherever your group is, we bring the whole experience to you. From the Classic Amazing Race through a city’s streets to a high-energy indoor Game Show, our activities come in outdoor, indoor, and online formats, so there’s a version that fits your group, your venue, and the kind of day you’re after.
Why Team Building Actually Works
Done well, team building does exactly what you’d hope: it sharpens communication, builds trust, lifts morale, and sends people back to work feeling more connected to the people around them. Teams that genuinely enjoy each other’s company collaborate more easily, handle pressure better, and tend to stick around longer. None of that is controversial, and it’s the reason team building sits on almost every organisation’s calendar.
The catch is that those outcomes only show up when people actually engage. A day that staff endure out of obligation does very little. A day they throw themselves into does a great deal. That’s the whole problem we set out to solve. The science of why team building works is the easy part; the hard part is running an event people are genuinely glad they came to, and that’s what we focus on. Every other benefit follows from that.
Our Team Building Activities
Variety matters, because no two teams enjoy the same thing. Some want to get outside and explore, others want to stay in and compete across a table. Our range covers all of it, and every activity is run by a professional actor who keeps the energy up from the first minute to the last.
Outdoor Activities
The Classic Amazing Race is our flagship and our most-booked activity. Teams take a map and a set of cryptic clues and head out to navigate a city’s streets and precincts, solving challenges at each checkpoint along the way, from eating competitions to construction tasks to cryptic puzzles. It’s competitive, adventurous, and gets a group genuinely caught up in the moment.
The Beach Amazing Race takes that same format to the coast, swapping city streets for sand and a series of outdoor challenges along the water. The Monopoly Amazing Race turns the city into a giant, interactive version of the board game, with teams collecting properties and completing challenges as they go. All three are best for groups that want to get outside, move around, and compete.
Indoor Activities
When you’d rather stay indoors, or want certainty against the weather, our indoor formats run in any private venue. The Game Show is an all-in-one event drawing challenges from Wheel of Fortune, Sale of the Century, The Price is Right, and a music and movie sound round. Minute to Win It turns everyday objects into fast, surprisingly difficult challenges that work brilliantly as an inclusive icebreaker. Taskmaster, based on the hit TV show, throws up absurd creative challenges judged by an actor host in full character. Survivor pits teams against each other in immunity-style physical and mental challenges. And Adventure Trivia reimagines the standard trivia night as a mix of questions, games, and physical tasks, so everyone gets a moment to shine. Indoor activities suit conferences, office events, and any day where you want a reliable wet-weather option.
Virtual & Online
For remote and distributed teams, we run online versions of several activities, including online Adventure Trivia, so interstate offices and work-from-home staff can take part together. It’s the easiest way to keep a hybrid team connected, laughing, and involved without getting everyone in one room.
Every activity runs Australia-wide. See your city on our location pages.
Which Team Building Activity Is Right for Your Group?
If you’re not sure where to start, a few simple pointers usually do the trick. If you’ve got a large group across multiple departments, the Classic Amazing Race works brilliantly because it scales and gets everyone moving. If you’re staying in the office or a conference venue, the Game Show or Minute to Win It are the go-to. If your team loves comedy and the unexpected, Taskmaster is hard to beat. If you’re near the coast and want something different, the Beach Amazing Race makes the most of it. And if your team is remote or hybrid, our online formats keep everyone in the same game from wherever they are. Still not sure? Tell us about your group, your venue, and what you’re hoping to get out of the day, and we’ll point you to the right fit.
Team Building for Every Kind of Group
We don’t only do corporate. The same fun-first approach works across very different groups, and we tailor the experience to suit each one.
Corporate Teams
For workplaces, our activities suit everything from EOFY celebrations and Christmas parties to onboarding days, conference breakouts, quarterly team days, and leadership offsites. There’s no particular skill or fitness level required, and our hosts make sure everyone gets involved, including the sceptics. If you’re organising a work event specifically, our corporate activities page goes into the occasions, venues, and logistics in more detail.
Schools & Universities
Our Schools Amazing Race is a purpose-built excursion format. Student teams follow clues, work through challenges, and explore the city together, developing communication, problem-solving, and teamwork in a way that doesn’t feel like a classroom. It runs cleanly from upper primary groups through to university orientation weeks, and it’s safe, structured, and low-stress for the teachers and coordinators organising it. Our events fit in perfectly with the student wellbeing curriculum and many others too!
Social Groups
We also run events purely for fun. Hens parties, Hucks parties where both wedding parties celebrate together, milestone birthdays, sporting breakups, tourist groups, and friend catch-ups all get the same professional-actor hosting and the same genuinely entertaining formats. It’s a social occasion built around doing something, not just sitting around a table.
ve ways to break the ice quickly across a large or mixed group.
Any Group Size, Any Venue, Anywhere in Australia
Our activities scale from a small team day right up to large company-wide events. Smaller groups tend to get the most connection out of a single shared activity, while larger groups run as multiple teams at once or as heats, so nobody stands around waiting for a turn. Whatever your headcount, the experience is built to keep everyone involved.
Venue is rarely a barrier. For outdoor activities like the Amazing Race, the city or the coast is the venue, so there’s nothing extra to book. For indoor formats, any private space works, whether that’s your office, a function room, or a conference venue. And because we’re fully mobile and operate Australia-wide, we simply come to you. Most of our major-city demand runs through dedicated location pages for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, the Gold Coast, the Hunter Valley, Newcastle, and the Sunshine Coast, with plenty more covered besides.
Why Great Race?
The short answer is our hosts. Every Great Race event is run by professional actors, not a colleague with a microphone or a generic event facilitator. A trained performer knows how to hold a room, manage the energy, and get the reluctant participants as involved as the keen ones, and that single fact changes the character of the entire day.
Beyond that, we build our activities around TV formats people already recognise, so there’s no awkward explanation or warm-up period. Everyone’s on board from the first minute. We’ve been doing this since 2009 at a volume of 500 or more events a year, which is the kind of experience that shows in how smoothly a day runs and how easily we adjust when something needs to change on the fly. Boring, as we like to put it, is our kryptonite, and our clients come back year after year because the events deliver.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Classic Amazing Race is our most-booked activity, followed closely by the indoor Game Show. The best choice for your group really comes down to your size, your venue, and what your team enjoys, and we're happy to help you decide.
Outdoor activities like the Amazing Race use the city or the coast as the venue and suit active, exploratory groups. Indoor activities like the Game Show, Taskmaster, and Minute to Win It run in any private space and are ideal for conferences or as a reliable wet-weather option.
Anything from a small team day to a large company-wide event. Larger groups run as multiple teams or heats so everyone stays involved throughout.
Yes. We're fully mobile and operate Australia-wide. Check our location pages for your city or region.
Yes. We run online versions of several activities, which keep remote and hybrid teams involved no matter where everyone is based.
Absolutely. Alongside corporate events, we run school excursion formats, student wellbeing events and social events including hens, Hucks parties, and birthdays.
Why brands, teams, friends, and family can’t get enough of Great Race!
We had an absolute blast from start to finish. The session was packed with fast-paced minigames, fun trivia rounds, and plenty of laughs that encouraged everyone to sometimes step outside their comfort zones in the best way possible. What stood out most was how inclusive and engaging the experience was – people of all personalities got involved and genuinely had a great time.
Harrison P. | Google
Just wanted to personally thank you for the session you and your team provided at the U@UNSW conference. It really met all our boxes and aligned with my debrief. Its especially refreshing to partner with an organisation who just get it without the need for micro-management. So… THANK YOU. I look forward to working with you guys again in the future.
Patricia G. | UNSW
Overall it was a perfect team day and all members of my team certainly enjoyed being out of the office and making their way around the city! Discovering new spots that they had not encountered previously, i.e. a couple of landmark around The Rocks. On behalf of everyone in the team, I would like to say Thank You very much for facilitating such a great day out for us… Cheers!
Anton S. | MLC
All the teams had SO much fun! We got some great feedback saying how much everyone enjoyed their day! The boys did an awesome job, and we’ll definitely be recommending you to others. Hopefully we can do a round two one day! Thanks for such a great day!
Montana L. | Realestate.com.au
We just loved it!! We had such a good time and the guys were great. We would all highly recommend it and would love to do it again!
Elise B. | Time Out Sydney
Our group absolutely enjoyed every part of the race. We experienced so much laughter, joy, banter and competitiveness. The fact that all of the challenges involved everyone, made it enjoyable. Our host Sam was THE BEST!!! She made the race exciting and made us all laugh especially at prize giving!! It’s been three days since the race and everyone’s still talking about it and are already talking about a rematch.
Jessica A. | Social group
Ready to Book?
Ready to run team building your group will actually look forward to? Get in touch and Great Race handles the rest.
