Fun Ice Breaker Questions for Meetings

Use Ice Breaker Questions As Conversation Starters During Team Building

This illustration shows fun ice breakers for your next meeting including

Josh Seong @ The Balance


Some ice breakers are fun and funny, and their goal is to help participants enjoy meeting with each other. On other occasions, you might want to tie the ice breaker into the topic of the meeting. However, that doesn't always have to be the case when you use fun and funny icebreakers to start out your meeting or team building session.

These ice breakers can produce laughter that contributes to a genuinely relaxed meeting environment. Employees who are laughing together are comfortable interacting with the other employees who are attending the meeting. Their laughter keeps the room alive and feeling warm and interactive—exactly what you expect your fun ice breaker to do.

In groups of people who don't work together, these fun ice breaker questions are effective in breaking through the normal coolness that can exist between people before they know each other. Laughter is a terrific equalizer and allows warm interaction to emerge quickly during meetings, training, and team-building sessions.

For these icebreakers to be effective, all you have to do is supply the question. Your participants who are naturally funny and communicative will provide the rest.

Sample Fun Ice Breaker Questions

Consider these sample questions for your meetings and possibly even use some of the ideas to develop your own ice breakers. Some questions are designed just for fun, but others have suggestions for how they might be used to launch into a broader conversation.

Fun ice breakers for your next meeting
The Balance / Josh Seong
  • If you woke up tomorrow as an animal, what animal would you choose to be and why? (While an amusing ice breaker, this fun question can also lead to discussions about the valuable traits different animals possess and how those traits might relate to people.)
  • If you could live anywhere on this planet and take everything that you love with you, where would you choose to live? (This ice breaker question can lead to further discussion about the types of experiences people value.)
  • What favorite color are you and how does being that color make you feel? (For any work that involves any type of design, this can be a fun ice breaker question to ask to discuss color options.)
  • If you could choose your age forever, what age would you choose and why? (Discussions about the types of experiences people have at different ages can be valuable, especially in an industry like marketing.)
  • If you could be in the movie of your choice, what movie would you choose and what character would you play? Why?
  • What are your 10 favorite foods?
  • If you were stranded on a desert island, what three items would you want to have with you? (This is another ice breaker question that can generate a discussion about the types of things people value and why.)
  • Share a description of your favorite material object that you already own? (Are there common traits among the different people in the conversation? If so, this ice breaker question can be a starting point for a discussion about product design.)
  • What item that you don't have already, would you most like to own? This is another ice breaker question that can be valuable in either product development or product design.)
  • If you were to create a slogan for your life, what would the slogan be? (The thought process that goes into this ice breaker question is much the same as the thought process that goes into developing any kind of slogan.)
  • Pick something out of your pocket or purse and share with the group why it's important to you.
  • If you could choose one hobby that now seems out of your reach either financially or time-wise, what hobby would you take up and why? (This ice breaker question can lead to a productive conversation about the types of things valued by different demographics.)
  • Think of one word that describes X (whatever topic is at hand) and share it with the group. (For example, in a session about change management, ask your participants, what is the one word they first thought of when they thought of the word, change? Responses will range from chaos to confusion to cool.)

The Bottom Line

Use these fun ice breaker questions and ones that you generate yourself by knowing your audience and what will amuse your participants. You can't go wrong with ice breaker fun questions. You can trust that when you use questions like these, your participants will generate the fun.