Hang-out. Get-together. Party. Virtual gathering. We use all these terms for social affairs that are, in most cases, presumed to be in-person events. Yet, nothing in these words suggests social events require “physical in-personness.”
The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned countless negatives most people never thought they’d encounter in day-to-day life. However, it has revealed some bright spots of human resilience. The ability to connect, bond, laugh, and experience joy with one another through 100% virtual means is one of those bright spots.
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What Is An Online Social Event?
An online social event is a gathering that takes place in a digital space, involves two or more people, and allows guests to communicate interactively, smile, laugh, have fun, and bond across absolutely any distance. These can also be virtual corporate events that help to connect colleagues online while working remotely for long periods.
“There is no greater predictor of human well-being than the amount of social time we spend with one another.”
Are you ready to have some fun?
Maybe you’ve been missing the unique smile of your work spouse or that feeling of communicating completely (well, basically) non-verbally with your BFF across the country. No matter what you’re missing, you can find it during one of these virtual corporate events.
Online Event Ideas for Virtual Corporate Gatherings & Socials
1) Virtual Team Lunch
Bonding while eating? Sign me up!
Bridge the gap between our virtual-only world and the authentic experiences we all miss delivering over the common dominator that we all love: food. These virtual cards offer a large selection of vendors so that there’s something for everyone.
Try out a theme with this online event: Lunch n’ Learn
2) Virtual Murder Mystery
Rekindle your passion for life through the online intrigue of catching a killer.
During a virtual murder mystery, you and your event attendees don your best detective hats to scour evidence, crack cryptic clues, and put your deductive reasoning powers to the test to catch the ultimate bad guy. Best of all, you get to do it all from the safety and comfort of your own home—snacks (thanks to Caroo), drinks, pajamas, and all.
Try out a theme with this online event: Hawaiian luau. (Cross genres by pairing this characteristically dark event with the maximally cheerful luau.)
Pro-Tip: Sherlock Holmes never solved any mysteries until after his afternoon tea and snack. Make sure your team is properly supplied with healthy and delicious treats via Caroo’s team building kits and boxes for virtual events.
3) Virtual Holiday Event Idea
Celebrate the start of Fall with your group!
These engaging and fun activities will celebrate the start of the season with the crunchiest of leaves, coziest of sweaters, and sweetest mugs of cider. With the ideas listed below, employees can easily bond virtually with their coworkers. From online games to trivia and quizzes – this virtual event will celebrate fall with some holiday-themed activities. Perfect for a team event anytime in September, October, or November!
Try out a theme with this online event: Autumn colors!
How to get started: Check out these virtual activities to plan with your group…
Seasonal Beer & Cheese Pairing Experience Boxes
Hollywood Murder Mystery
Fall Inspired Scavenger Hunt
Hispanic Heritage Game Show
Halloween Escape Room
4) Virtual Escape Room
Do you have what it takes to escape?
A virtual escape room is so much more than escaping a room. During an online escape room, you and your fellow captives will explore your environment, find clues, examine leads, and unravel the entire enigma to create a path to freedom.
Try out a theme with this online event: Coachella
5) Virtual International Games
Reach all corners of the world.
Learn more about the world we live in through trivia, geography identification questions, and brain teasers designed to keep everyone engaged. Two (or more) teams will face off to flex their knowledge in an international game show competition to determine who’s the real Ferdinand Magellan in the group.
Grab the IPAs, the ambers, the witbiers, and the stouts—they can all be friends for one night. Experience the flavor explosion of bitter or malty brews colliding with the rich brininess of cheese. During a virtual beer and cheese tasting, you’ll reflect deeply on the magical interactions between two amazing flavors.
Try out a theme with this online event: Shakespeare
If you’ve ever watched an audience member run down the aisles after their name was called on the Price is Right, then you know exactly how much fun this event can provide.
A virtual game show covers all the bases you want in a night of fun, whether you’re planning virtual birthday parties or filling programming holes in your virtual webinars. You can pack your virtual game night full of activities that create just the effect you’re looking for—competition, laughter, bonding, and more.
Try out a theme with this online event: Disco (Get that retro game show vibe and more.)
How to get started: Come on down! You’ve been selected to play one of these exciting games:
Jeopardy
Game Show Night
Name That Tune
Family Feud
The Price Is Right
8) Virtual Guess Who
Play a getting-to-know-you-guessing game that confirms what you know about your co-workers and reveals what you still need to learn.
Can you match your co-workers with clues from their past and present? You might think you know everything there is to know about your teammates, but when you’re dealing with interests and passions that exist outside the office, you might be in for many delightful surprises. Up the stakes of each guess with some gift cards to hand out as prizes.
Try out a theme with this online event: People who speak in hashtags
Find those rose-tinted shades and prepare to live la vie en rose.
Maybe this virtual event will have you seeing life through a rose-colored computer screen instead of glasses, but it still provides memories for a lifetime. Whether you long to sample local delicacies or stroll around the city, you can find your way to Paris through the magic of the internet.
Try out a theme with this online event: Favorite movies (So many stories lead to Paris. Le sigh.)
Send your mind far, far away without ever leaving your couch.
Watch—and in some cases learn how to do—dazzling tricks based on slights of hand, loopholes in perception, and the wonderful art of misdirection. Interactive mind-reading, crazy coincidences, and unbelievable magic coincide in this interactive and seriously memorable experience. Be bowled over by mind-blowing illusions, which have to be seen to be believed.
Try out a theme with this online event: Retro carnival
Become a Zen master over a cup of fresh-brewed tea.
Enjoy brewing and drinking teas from all over the world during the Tea & Mindfulness Experience. Everyone in your group will get to brew different types of tea, including a spectacular flowering tea that blossoms right in front of your eyes. An experienced live event host will lead everyone on guided meditation exercises that refresh and relax the mind.
Try out a theme with this online event: Yoga studio
Bring the excitement of your local pub trivia to the computer screen with a night of trivia. Award the person with the highest score “King/Queen of Trivia” and test your knowledge of all those little things you learn and then somehow remember for the rest of your life. If only you could remember your father’s birthday!
Try out a theme with this online event: Music videos
Like a scavenger hunt for getting to know your team.
Enjoy chasing all the clues and mysterious leads you get from a murder mystery or scavenger hunt, but get a more fulfilling reward for all your sleuthing: understanding your teammates. Plan this as a standalone event or as a pre-show for your next virtual meeting.
Try out a theme with this online event: Famous couples
Little bursts of gamification make a fast-paced event.
Like all hybrid events, this one is perfect for anyone who can’t or just doesn’t want to commit, mini-games packs your favorite parts of multiple online games into one delightful whirlwind session.
Try out a theme with this online event: Monte Carlo
Also known as “What in the world is that?” the game.
Put your drawing skills — or lack of drawing skills — to the test in this virtual version of the classic team game. Using an online, mobile-friendly game platform and a digital whiteboard, players will get a word that they need to portray without writing the word itself.
Try out a theme with this online event: The championship game
Find out how to start a journaling practice and its many benefits as a team in this interactive workshop. Leave with a set of actionable tools to feel better and more creative.
Try out a theme with this online event: Wellness retreat
Pro-Tip: Have an AllSwell journal delivered as a way to help your team kickstart their journaling practice.
17) Virtual Drag Bingo
Not your grandma’s bingo.
All the excitement of bingo—hearing your number called and slowly piecing your way to victory—is amplified by dressing up to challenge established gender norms and stereotypes. (Any of these care packages full of snacks and swag would make delightful prizes.)
Try out a theme with this online event: Roller derby
Handcraft your own soft serve from the comforts of your own kitchen.
Beat the heat with this delicious virtual event. The Ice Cream Float Experience delivers everything needed to make ice cream from home—yes, even the cream! You and your guests will close out this energetic event with incredible homemade ice cream floats—root beer, cherry or orange—whatever floats your boat.
Wash away your cares as you wash a canvas with muted layers of color.
The fluid nature of watercolor painting is famous for its forgiveness and flexibility. Hazy lines and an ability to create multiple layers empower novice artists with the pleasure of experimenting while still creating something beautiful.
During this virtual event, you and your guests will explore your hidden artist talents together and then show off the fruits of your labors.
Try out a theme with this online event: Emo artists (Hello, Van Gogh.)
Laugh and learn as you blast through an online scavenger hunt.
If you’re itching for an excuse to explore Italy—or perhaps test your knowledge of the Italian language or culture?—try out a virtual scavenger hunt. This online social event will send you on a mission through the streets of Sicily, where you’ll be met with challenges that require both savvy skills and savvy teaming.
Try out a theme with this online event: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
Bond with absolutely any personality through a shared love of chocolate. During the event, you’ll learn how to make these sweet treats with a live instructor leading the way. Each guest will receive a virtual event gift box with everything you need to make a delicious chocolate treat.
Talk about the fantastically bitter nuances of the deepest dark bars. Sing about the smoothness of these milk chocolate wonders as you learn to make exquisite chocolate truffles in this virtual class. This is one social event you will not forget!
Ferment your years of beer-drinking experience into beer-brewing gold.
Perfect for any beer connoisseur—that person who knows what glass (and cheese) to pair with every single brew, that person who can name hop varieties by smelling them, that person who takes enough notes during beer tastings to have plenty of intel for a home-brewing adventure.
Virtual home brews often feature live instruction that helps aspiring brewmasters of all levels use ingredients and materials (that could have escaped from any high-school chemistry classroom) to create their very own beer.
Try out a theme with this online event: Favorite scientist
You may not be able to share the hot, hazy atmosphere of a basement comedy club, but you can still share all the laughs. Get the kinds of laughs that make you spit out your drink as you work through improv exercises that require no stage experience or stage presence.
Enjoy the quiet reflection of a virtual museum tour
A virtual museum tour means no crowds. It means no noise from groups of kids on field trips. It means you can experience masterpieces from artists and exhibitors in new ways, taking advantage of the virtual format to explore and reflect on everything you see.
Try out a theme with this online event: Silly accents
Enjoy a chef-prepared meal. (Just don’t tell yourself the chef is you.)
Virtual cooking classes usually feature live stream instruction, delivered ingredients, and fancy tips and tricks you once thought you could only learn as a sous chef in a top French kitchen.
Try out a theme with this online event: Professional food photographer
Experience the thrill of the chase with a virtual scavenger hunt.
A virtual scavenger hunt will have you and your faraway friends and colleagues chasing clues, messaging and collaborating in real-time, and drinking up that thrilling sense of getting closer and closer to your goal.
Try out a theme with this online event: Video game characters
You can’t control the sands of time, but you can make beautiful sand art.
You don’t need artistic skills or really even steady hands to make a sand art workshop an unforgettable virtual team-building activity. Have someone who knows what they’re doing demonstrate the craft, or simply send out all the materials and see what sort of carte blanche sand magic everyone on your team has up their sleeves.
Try out a theme with this online event: Deserted island
Channel the mysterious powers flowing through the universe.
Find a professional tarot reader or get yourself a book and do a ton of research and prepare to reveal to friends, colleagues, and family members what the cards have in store for them. This event will be as gripping for observers as it is for the volunteers having their fates read over Zoom.
Try out a theme with this online event: 1950s. (Think: an episode of I Love Lucy where the ladies consult an oracle.)
Happy hour can finally be wherever you want it to be.
A virtual happy hour is all about connection, camaraderie, and lots of laughter. Just like the in-person versions, virtual happy hours can be as structured or as impromptu as you want. Pick games and activities for breakout rooms, or simply play it by ear. Get cocktail kits or let everyone order from their favorite local bar or retailer with Hoppier smart digital Visa cards.
Try out a theme with this online event: Disney characters
Whip up some fresh pasta dough and learn the basics of pasta making from a professional chef. You’ll also learn some interesting pasta history during this live demonstration where you and your group will practice techniques for making pasta from scratch. Choose from ravioli, fettuccine, gnocchi, tagliatelle, or other types of pasta!
Try out a theme with this online event: One night in Rome
A virtual meditation will help you unlock deep inner reserves of zen. Whether you choose breath work, classic mindfulness, or posed-based meditations, you’ll use your internet connection to find an inner connection with the present being within.
Try out a theme with this online event: Space opera
Bring paper to life through the ancient art of origami.
The satisfaction of folding smooth lines and hearing the light crinkling sound of paper makes this event both active and soothing. During this virtual experience, you get to transform matter. What was once just paper can become cranes, frogs—anything you want.
Try out a theme with this online event: Vow of silence
Learn the extra flick of the wrist that perfectly whisks cognac and cherry juice during a virtual mixology experience. Find out how to not muddle your mint muddle. Absorb the art of the perfect proportion while flashing that bartender smile. (Also, you might want to send some snacks in case all that mixing works up an appetite.)
Try out a theme with this online event: Miami Vice
Pro-Tip: If you don’t yet have a favorite cocktail or liquor, start with a virtual alcohol tasting.
34) Virtual Learn To Play Chess
Enjoy the quiet strategy, pristine focus, and understated thrills of chess.
The ultimate game of strategy, chess is as fun and nuanced to learn online as it is in person. During a live event, you’ll learn all the nuts of bolts of piece names, movements, and basic strategies. You’ll also start learning how to anticipate moves, picturing possible outcomes.
How well can you really convey thoughts and ideas? Virtual Taboo will reveal all.
Like classic Taboo, the virtual version will get you trying to describe a concept or word within limited parameters. Your performance is measured simply enough: by the ability of your teammates to guess what on earth you’re trying to describe. This game is hilarious and sometimes constructive. You may detect in yourself some communication patterns that explain why people never seem to understand your emails.
Try out a theme with this online event: US Presidents
Pop a cork and let the good times flow—no designated driver required.
Drinking your favorite wines and socializing with your favorite people might be the perfect way to spend an evening. Kick things off with an icebreaker if you want, or even do a formal wine tasting, but to be honest, the drinks and the event company usually run this tasting for you.
Try out a theme with this online event: Famous royals
How to get started: Get wine and snacks in one convenient package.
37) Virtual Mash-Up
All of your favorite team-building activities mashed up into one unforgettable experience.
Whether you crave karaoke with a side of trivia games or problem-solving with a drawing challenge round, you’ll find exactly what you want through a virtual mashup, the ultimate fusion of team-building flavors.
Try out a theme with this online event: Favorite TV personalities
A magical combination of laughter and yoga can refill even the emptiest wells.
During laughter yoga, you’ll get in touch with all the muscles and sensations involved in laughter. As you guide your muscles into the physical experience of laughing, your emotions might just take over and flow right into the joy of true laughter.
Try out a theme with this online event: Holi Festival of Colors
Elevate your Blackjack strategy—not your stress levels.
Social distancing, in many ways, has opened novel avenues for developing new skills. If you’ve always been interested in learning how to play Blackjack in a low-stakes environment, then now is the time. Learn the rules and techniques while you can focus within the peace and quiet of your own home.
Try out a theme with this online event: Grandma’s basement
Perfect your Zoom poker face during an immersive tutorial
Learn all the ins and outs of poker within the context of video conferencing. Discover new social dynamics as you try to find your opponents’ tells from afar.
Try out a theme with this online event: Wall Street
When you take classic charades into the online space, you’ll discover some advantageous abilities. For one, you can mute the actor so they can’t cheat when they get desperate and try to bolster their body language with spoken language.
Try out a theme with this online event: Glow in the dark
Share a fun baking experience without having to share the cookies.
Bust out your mixing bowls and find a place where your laptop can stay safe from splatters of dough and clouds of flour. Bond with your fellow guests as you mix, bake and avoid arguing over who gets to lick the spoon.
Try out a theme with this online event: Food Network star
Let waves of sound and good vibes wash your troubles away.
This delightfully immersive, but relaxingly passive, event will have you and your guests connecting over the shared experience of sound. You won’t have to talk at all as meditative sounds wash over you and open your mind and senses to new delights. (This replenishing event is perfect for anyone with video meeting fatigue.)
This virtual event will have your guests wondering why they didn’t pay more attention in history class, but it will also have them laughing at the wonders of what happened before us. In this safe-for-work version of the popular TV show, participants are tasked with retelling the story of an obscure historical event without consulting the internet or any other reference. Do you remember the moon landing? Or the Normandy Invasion? You will after this hilarious blend of memory, comedy, and maybe an adult beverage or two.
Try out a theme with this online event: Medieval times
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