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Corporate Sports Day Provider – Zing Events
Back to School Sports Day in 5 words: Nostalgic, active, physical, competitive and challenging!
Perfect for: Teams that are looking for an outside activity in summer
About: Teams compete in nostalgic, action-packed challenges—from sack races to egg-and-spoon relays. It’s a playful, high-energy way to spark friendly rivalry, boost teamwork, and create unforgettable laughs, proving that team building can be seriously fun.
Duration: 1-hr to 2-hrs and can be completed in the morning or afternoon
Location: Fully mobile! Comes to your office or away day location and is an outside activity
Attendee Limit: 10-750
Pricing: £1798 + £25 per person (all +VAT)
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DIY Team Building Sports Day Activities & Ideas
Looking to save some pennies? Got an employee trained as an personal trainer confident to run the event?
Here are some thoughts about running a team building sports day in-house 👇
Planning the event
First things first, the big question is…inside or outside?
Ideally the answer is outside, but something may derail that plan, and it’s called….THE BRITISH WEATHER ☔⛈️
And you may not have access to outside space.
It’s a good idea to have a contingency in place for if you can’t get outside. Most sports day activities – that you will facilitate in-house – will require a 30-50m straight line of space for completion of the events. Finding this space outside is easy, inside not so easy. You may need to be creative.
Next up, you’ll need to be buying the equipment needed for all the events. Below, in the activity section, you will find ideas.
Also on the checklist, is the completion of a risk assessment. I know I know, boring stuff. But your H&S manager will be telling you off otherwise. For those extra-cautious kinds of people, you may want to think about having everyone sign a basic disclaimer too.
Communicating about the event
You’ll need to let everyone know:
📋 what to wear
📋 to bring a drink
Team Sizing
This is rather important. From our experience, it’s best to split teams up into groups of 5-6. That’s the sweet spot for camaraderie. You may also want to think about picking captains. And you already know who would be great at that, right?! 😆
How to facilitate the activities
The best way to structure the games, is that everyone does every activity, together. In a relay. For example, egg and spoon race. If you have teams of 6, 3 go at one end, 3 at the other end. And they run back and forth. The winning team is the first team to all complete the race.
8 Sports Day Activities to include and what to buy
So let’s go! The tried and tested, the events we did at school. Some we loved, others we hated 😆
Egg and spoon race
If you don’t want the hassle of boiling loads of eggs, you can buy fake ones. You’ll need x1 egg and x1 spoon per team.
Sack race
You’ll need 1 sack per team
Tug O War
Only do this game if your team love competition! You’ll need a long piece of rope. You might want to inform people that they will need to bring cloves to participate in this game. Rope is nasty on the hands!
Balancing beanbags
You’ll need 1 beanbag per team
Three-legged race
You’ll need (at least) one piece of rope per two people
Skipping race
One skipping rope per team
Wheelbarrow race
You won’t need anything. This is where one person will be the wheelbarrow and the other the driver!
Wellie wangling
See who can launch a welly the furthest! One wellie needed 😀
How to dish out points
Have a system of points for 1st, 2nd and 3rd. But also give out points for the best supporter and best effort. Make it fun!
Other tips
📌Have drinks at the ready
📌Have a first-aider at hand
8 Similar Team Building Activities to Corporate Sports Days
Looking for your team to be active and competitive but something different might tick that box better?
1. The Olympian!
The Olympian in 5 words: Active, physical, challenging, competitive and teamwork!
Perfect for: Teams looking for an activity outside, corporate events looking for a summer activity, teams looking for an activity that goes with an Olympic theme
About: Teams tackle a series of high-energy, Olympic-inspired challenges designed to test skill, strategy, and teamwork. It’s competitive, hilarious, and full of friendly rivalry—perfect for boosting collaboration, morale, and giving your team a winning edge
Duration: 1-hr to 2-hrs and can be completed in the morning or afternoon
Location: Fully mobile! Comes to your office or away day location and is an outside activity
Attendee Limit: 10-750
Pricing: £1798 + £25 per person (all +VAT)
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2. Take on the Sphere!
The Sphere in 5 words: Competitive, unusual, wild, daring, and edgy!
Perfect for: Teams that are looking for an outside activity in summer and corporate events with a large budget per person
About: The Sphere is a team building experience inspired by your favourite TV game shows! Teams face epic challenges across different zones, using strategy, skill, and collaboration to earn points before the grand finale inside the Sphere. High-energy, competitive, and full of laughs—this is team bonding with a big-screen twist
Duration: 1-hr to 3-hrs and can be completed in the morning or afternoon
Location: Fully mobile! Comes to your office or away day location and is an outside activity
Attendee Limit: 10-500
Pricing: £1798 + £44 per person (all +VAT)
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3. It’s A Knock Out!
Loved by young and old, an ‘It’s A Knockout’ tribute event will bring energy, colour and supreme fun to your team building day in Manchester! Using a great selection of giant inflatable games and activities, it recreates the fun of the wild and whacky game show! Get your teams battling it out with Human Table Football, Giant Inflatable Volleyball, Human Demolition and Sumo Relay!
4. Taken Treasure Hunt
A cunning cat burglar has sneaked in and stolen a briefcase full of your company documents! Your team will be split up into smaller groups and have to track down the documents, solving puzzles and working with covert field agents. The fastest team of budding detectives who recovers the ‘Taken’ briefcase first will win!
5. Olympic Games
This fun packed day allows your team to experience a little taster of what it’s like to be an Olympian. Sort of 😁
6. Country Sports
Archery, laser clay shooting, segways, quad bikes and duck herding! This is maximum outside fun for your team!
7. Archery & Duck Herding
You’ll use your bow and arrow skills to guide a flock of ducks through an obstacle course. It’s a quirky and hilarious way to build teamwork and patience. And with a bit of luck, you might even get crowned the next duck whisperer. Quack, Quack, Quack.
8. The Quiz & Battle Olympics!
Are there a mixture of personalities in your team? Introverts? Extroverts? If so, finding a team building activity to suit all is challenging. Some like being active and competitive, others want things quiet and relaxed. Some would feel awkward about being centre of attention, others would love it. It’s a bloomin nightmare right?!
Well, how about an activity that has a bit of everything?
Your team split into smaller teams, battling it out for points and for the gold medal 🥇
Mini-quizzes.
3v3 competitive battles.
Team challenges.
All in bite-size chunks. Relaxed AND energetic.
The competitive extroverts have the spotlight and win the battles, the calm introverts use their wits and win the quizzes. Everyone’s happy 😀
Just imagine your team playing these wild battles 👇💥
The Quiz & Battle Olympics in 5 words: Quizzical, energetic, informal, social and fun!
The Quiz & Battle Olympics is perfect for: Diverse teams of personalities (introverts and extroverts), teams looking for an informal and flexible team building activity that can be blended with drinks, food and socializing, financial teams, accountancy teams, teams in STEM, large groups, an evening team social
Duration: From 2-hrs to 4-hrs and can be completed morning, afternoon or evening
Location: Fully mobile! Comes to your office or away day / conference location
Attendee Limit & Set-Up Required: Can cater from 10 people upwards, can be completed cabaret or auditorium style. Limited AV is required
If you wanted to make it ultra-competitive, you can add the ‘Grand Finale’. which is a true test of your teams metal. It’s a fight to the death. Only joking. Or are we…? 👇
Find out more 👉 The Quiz & Battle Olympics 👈
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For more team building ideas, check out 28 team away day ideas to energise your team.
