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Summer Outdoor Team Building Activities For 2025

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What better season to commit to a team building activity than in summer. You have plenty of choice over activities as you can get outside where the sun is shining, and you’re no longer limited to staying indoors with our indoor team building activities. Besides, it’s good to venture out of the office and away from your desk for some good old-fashioned fun.

Why Is Summer Outdoor Team Building Important?

Team building in summer is important for fostering a sense of belonging and ensuring you have a successful team in the office who are fired up and ready to take on bigger challenges together in the workplace.

There are also many benefits to being outside during the summer as it can help to reduce stress and improve sleep, which will in turn help your team members to be more creative. Summer outdoor team building activities can benefit your business as well as your teams.

How Can KDM Events Help With Team Building In Summer?

At KDM Events, we strive to make event planning and organisation as stress-free as possible. We work with you to ensure that your event runs as smoothly as possible and that all bases are covered.

We can even help you find your perfect venue. Whatever it is you need from us, we can provide, and we can be as hands-on or off as you need.

We will be sure to work to any budgets and take care of meeting accessibility needs when needed. Get in touch today to work with us or to find out more about our services.

We have plenty of summer outdoor team building events to choose from, here are some of the very best activities for summer 2025.

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Sporty Summer Outdoor Team Building Activities

Summer, it’s the season for sports, the Olympics, the Euros, school sports days. It’s hard to get away from, so why not make sport the theme of your next summer outdoor team building event? We have plenty to choose from, take a look at our most popular sporting events:

1. Country Sports

Pistol shooting, sheepdog handling, clay shooting, ferret racing, these are just a few of the activities that you can get up to in our team building summer county sports event.

We have onsite professional instructors who will work with your team members to teach them how to take part in each activity.

Your teams will have the chance to take part in a variety of activities that they may not have done before, not only will they foster new skills, but they will have plenty of fun whilst doing so.

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2. Out Of Office Olympics

Out of Office Olympics is a highly visual and entertaining session of team building activities with the emphasis very much on participation, interaction and laughter!

Inspired by the beloved TV show, ‘it’s a knockout’, teams will compete head-to-head on large inflatables and knock-out players in each challenges in this energetic and fun team building summer event.

With something for everybody, the games have been carefully and imaginatively designed to enable full participation by everyone, regardless of sporting and fitness levels.

3. School Sports

Nothing beats a school sports day, why not take your teams back to their childhood and host your very own school sports day as your summer outdoor team building activity.

Including all of your school sports day favourites such as, space hopper race, egg and spoon race, bean bag throwing, skipping, long jump, sack race and everyone’s favourite the relay race.

Working the same way as a school sports day, participants will be placed into ‘houses’ competing to win as many events as possible to allow them to reign supreme above the others.

4. Combat Archery

A different take on sporting events, but it gives your team a chance to try something different. Our combat archery summer outdoor team building activity is a great choice if you want to try something new.

Fast-paced and energetic activity, perfect for blowing off those late night cobwebs or bringing your event to an exhilarating end!

Teams will compete in a series of matches aiming to either capture the opposition flag or be the last team standing, whilst trying to score points by hitting the opposing team members in a live game.

5. Garden Games

If you want your team building summer events to be a little more relaxed, then our garden games might suit your team a little better.

Whether you’re testing your accuracy on Quoits, steady hand on Beat the Buzzer, balancing on the Surf Simulator or holding on tight on the Bucking Bronco, all these games are great fun and offer an exciting enhancement to any event.

Create a lovely, relaxed atmosphere with a selection of garden games and entertainers.

6. Dragon Boat Racing

Get out on the water for your summer outdoor team building activity with our dragon boat racing event.

An ancient Chinese tradition with over 2000 years of history, Dragon boat racing gives a real and lasting sense of individual achievement and team spirit.

This is an exciting and exhilarating way of motivating and integrating staff from all areas of the company. The sport’s amazing appeal is its ability to get everyone working together in a short space of time.

7. Activity & Adrenaline

Spark the adrenaline in your team members with our activity and adrenaline team building event for summer.

There are a number of activities to choose from for this exciting event, from defying the laws of gravity with Rage Buggies to practising your marksman skills with rifle shooting. Activity and Adrenalin has it all for an exciting and thrilling event.

From gladiator joust, arm sweeper, eliminator, zorb ball racing, and long bow archery among many more thrilling activities, team members will be challenged and entertained in this wonderful team building summer event.

Making and Building Summer Outdoor Team Building Activities

Get creative with our range of making and building team building activities for summer 2025. There’s plenty to offer and lots to get involved with. Choose something that teams can get hands on with and work together to create something fun:

1. Dragster Race

Feel the need, the need for speed with our dragster race. Challenge your group by designing, building and finally testing their very own Dragster Car in this highly unique and engaging team-based event.

Each team is given exactly the same equipment to build their own model-sized racing Dragster – yet only one team shall emerge victorious in the final drag race, meaning that testing, design and collaboration as a team ultimately determine the outcome.

2. Scrapheap Challenge

This is a team building, summer event that brings everyone together which promotes both creativity and teamwork to create a shared outcome at the end of a fun-filled event.

After a briefing and demonstration from our KDM Event Managers, teams will be confronted with a pile of equipment which at first glance may appear destined for the scrapyard.

However, using Rube Goldberg principles, each smaller group is tasked with creating a chain reaction within their allotted zone – which must eventually link up with all other zones to create a giant and visually striking chain reaction as the grand finale.

3. Race To Success

Laid out as ‘garage’ areas for each team, efficiency and planning is needed in the building of the karts as the teams decide upon the best way to use their tools and equipment to construct the kart. Once built, the karts have to re-built in the fastest possible time.

Some teams may resemble a slick ‘F1’ operation and some teams may look like they could audition for the ‘Wacky Races’ but this just adds to the depth and success of this event.

4. Retro Rockets

Retro Rockets is designed to complement your conference programme to ensure that it delivers the maximum benefit for your company and your staff. This summer outdoor team building event can be timed to suit your day, whether is it part of something bigger or is the main event.

From the launch pad to the stars (or as close as you can get!), each team of wannabe NASA space engineers must summon every scrap of creativity and resourcefulness to design, assemble and then launch a water pressure powered rocket model to fly further than the opposition teams!

5. Drone Flyover

If you want a creative team building summer event but also want something new and tech based, then our drone flyover activity might be perfect for you and your teams. This is designed to be a part of a larger day or can be the perfect way to close the day.

Prior to the event, we will agree on a preferred image or logo with you and create boards that your team can hold above their heads to create a beautiful, collaborative video using our drones.

Team Building Summer Events Based On TV Shows & Movies

Many of our summer outdoor team building activities are based on beloved TV shows and movies. This is a great way of getting your team involved and excited about the event. See our summer outdoor team building activities inspired by TV shows and movies below:

1. Game Your Thrones

Inspired by the award-winning HBO TV show ‘Game of Thrones.’ This summer outdoor team building event works really well, even when winter isn’t coming.

Game Your Thrones is a challenging event which requires mental skill and physical ability as teams compete to ascend the iron throne.

With intriguing activities such as “Mother of Dragons” and “Free House”, each of the unique challenges has a Mental, Physical or Skill slant, meaning there’s something for everyone.

2. Squad Games

Based on the chart topping Netflix TV series ‘Squid Games’, our team building summer event, squad games allows team members to participate in traditional playground games as well as well-know games from the show in order to avoid elimination from the games. Each win is awarded with points to be place in your team’s piggy bank.

Games such as red light, green light and Ddakji, Tug of War, Giant Marbles and The Glass Tile Game will have your team members hearts racing as they compete to win.

3. Wiped Out

Everyone has always wanted the chance to complete the well-loved inflatable assault course from TV’s ‘Total Wipeout’ and now they can.

In our summer outdoor team building activity, participants will be faced with their very own assault course to complete, including giant slides, punching walls and spinning tunnels. All to compete to take part in the finale, the dreaded sweeper arm.

This is a brilliant team building event for summer to get your teams moving whilst having lots of fun together.

4. Get Me Out Of Here

Ever wanted to take part in a bush tucker trail from TV’s ‘I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here’? Now you can with this summer outdoor team building event. If you don’t fancy a stint in the jungle, then we can bring the jungle atmosphere to you.

Each team of a maximum 8 people, tackle the 8 themed challenges – with branded signage boards, giant prop replicas and our take on the famous Cyclone finale all adding to the excitement surrounding the event.

5. Ninja Workout

Inspired by the highly entertaining TV craze ‘Ninja Warrior’, our ninja workout is a realistic recreation of this physical event in a competitive yet not too intimidating team building summer event, meaning all can join in regardless of ability.

Swing from ropes and jump from pillar to post as you make your way through the gruelling assault course and of course beat the wall in the finale.

6. Hungry Games

Hungry games is inspired by the blockbuster trilogy, ‘The Hunger Games’, although instead of placing tributes in a deathly arena, we teach them key survival skills.

In order to survive the Hungry Games Arena each district must learn essential weaponry skills and survival techniques. They will be presented with challenges such as Axe Throwing, Combat Archery and Shelter building. Each skill must be mastered should they wish to leave as Victors.

7. Diamond Labyrinth

Leap up and grab as many golden tickets as you can in our inflatable dome as you put your physical, mental and endurance skills to the test in our team building summer event Diamond Labyrinth.

The Diamond Labyrinth team building activity is a great way to bring people together to work with each other and identify each player’s strengths and capabilities, all whilst having a tremendous amount of fun.

Each team will need mental skill, physical ability and ingenuity to complete the challenges within the Diamond Labyrinth team-building event and earn themselves time in our giant inflatable Dome.

8. Master The Task

Based on the TV favourite ‘Taskmaster’, Master The Task sees teams compete to solve a series of tasks set by the taskmaster.

Teams must strive to be creative, inventive and entertaining in order to gain as many points as possible from the taskmaster and be crowned the winners.

Work With KDM Events For Your Summer Outdoor Team Building Event Today

It is never too early to start planning your summer 2025 outdoor team building event, especially when there is so much thought and planning behind it to ensure that the activities can run smoothly and get all other aspects of the day booked and finalised before summer officially begins.

At KDM Events, we offer as much or as little help as is needed, aiding with venue finding, activity planning, theming, and award dinners. We can even advise on travel and catering.

We will pair you with one of our dedicated KDM Event Managers who will meet with you to discuss your needs and budgets so that we can make sure your day is as perfect as possible. Get in touch today to find out how we can help you today.

Some outdoor team building activities require a certain amount of space or specifically need green space, and not all venues have this. Luckily, KDM Events have a free venue finding service for you to use to find the perfect venue for your event, in your area. We have connections with some venues, and so they will be used to working with our knowledgeable KDM event managers. We can work with you to find the best venue for your summer outdoor team building event.

There’s not much difference apart from the venue you choose, a majority of our team building summer events can be organised to take place both indoors or outdoors and some venues accommodate both indoor and outdoor space depending on availability so if the summer weather does take a turn for the worst then you can always head indoors for shelter.

Get in touch with KDM Events today to begin organising your summer outdoor team building event, we can discuss budgets, limitations and goals or objectives for the day. Our KDM Event managers will then secure bookings for your chosen venue and activities and devise a plan for the entire day to ensure everything runs smoothly, there’s nothing we aren’t willing to take on, even if it’s something we haven’t managed before, and that’s rare as we have years of experience and a wide portfolio.