Icebreaker Questions

We have created a massive list of over 400 ice breaker questions for any occasion.

• 😄  Fun Icebreakers
• 🤩  Good Icebreaker Questions
• 👋  Get to know you Icebreaker Questions
• ✌️  More Getting to know you Questions
• 🤔  Would you rather Icebreaker Questions
• 🧐  If you could Icebreaker Questions
• 💼  Ice breaker Questions for Work
• 🤝  Best Ice breakers for Meetings
• 👩🏼‍🏫  Icebreaker Questions for Teachers
• 🤓  Icebreakers for College Students
• 😎  Icebreakers for Teens
• 💬  Small Group Icebreakers
• 🥳  Ice breaker Questions for Kids
• 😂  Bonus: Funny Questions to Ask

Fun Icebreakers 😄

The best way to break the ice is humor. These questions will induce laughter and a relaxed atmosphere.

1. What fashion trend did you love that is embarrassing now?
2. What’s the worst present you have ever received?
3. What was your worst haircut?
4. If you were wrongfully put into an insane asylum, how would you convince the staff that you’re actually sane?
5. If you were held at gunpoint and told that if you didn’t impress them with your dance moves, you would be killed, what dance moves would you bust out?
6. If you were an animal, what animal would you want to be, and why?
7. What word(s) did you misuse or mispronounce when you were a kid?
8. What’s the most imaginative pick-up line you can come up with?
9. What is the most inappropriate time you have ever laughed?
10. What is the most useless fact you know?
    

    
11. What is the most essential product of every grocery shop for you?
12. If you had your own talk show, what would it be called?
13. How useful would you be in a zombie apocalypse?
14. What topic could you give a 15-minute presentation on without any preparation?
15. If the universe is just a simulation, what update does it need?
16. If you had to sing karaoke, what song would you pick?
17. If animals could talk, which would be the rudest?
18. What’s the last thing you did for the first time?
19. What would you say to your president if you ran into him randomly?
20. What is the naughtiest thing you have ever done as a teenager?
21. What is the clumsiest thing you have done?
22. Do you think there is Life in Outer Space?
23. Have you ever sent a text message to the wrong person?
24. What prejudices do you have in your life?
25. If you had a pet parrot, what would you teach it to say?
26. If you had to become an inanimate object for a year, what object would you choose to be, and why?
27. Have you ever been thrown out of a public place?

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Good Icebreaker Questions 🤩

These questions are not only great to ask your friends, but also great for first dates. They are personal but not too intimate. You will definitely find out exciting things about each other.

1. If you were about to die but were allowed one song to listen to, which one would it be and why?
2. If you were to pitch me buying toilet paper for $50, what would your pitch be?
3. What was the best day of your life, and why?
4. Do you laugh when the ketchup bottle “farts”?
5. What is the weirdest compliment you have ever received?
6. If you had an unlimited supply of something for the rest of your life, what would it be?
7. What does your perfect breakfast look like?
8. Do you believe in any conspiracy theories?
9. What is something you hate?
10. What is your favorite and least favorite thing about technology?
11. What movie or TV-Show can you rewatch over and over again?
12. What is your favorite smell, and why?
13. What apps do you use the most?
14. What is something you do better than most people?
15. What is your earliest childhood memory?
16. What are you extremely bad at?
17. If you would write your autobiography, what would the title be?
18. How, do you think, will the world be in 100 years?
19. How would you change your life if the average life expectancy was 200 years?
20. What is happiness for you?
21. What are the most underrated things in life?
22. What was the worst date you have ever been on?
23. What do you find to be cringeworthy?
24. What’s the bravest thing you have ever done?
25. What’s the wisest quote you have ever heard or read?
26. When raising your child, what would you do differently than your parents did?
27. What is the worst response to “I love you”?
28. What’s the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?
29. What’s the most incredible coincidence that ever happened to you?

For more inspiration you can visit our massive list of creative and thought-provoking questions: 👉 350 Good questions to ask

Get to know you Icebreaker Questions 👋

If you’re like me, meeting new people can be quite stressful. Sometimes you just don’t know how to keep the conversation going. These questions lead to exciting discussions and help you to get to know new people.

1. What are the biggest regrets of your youth?
2. In three words, how would you describe your personality?
3. What is your guilty pleasure?
4. What is the best advice you have ever been given?
5. What was the worst job you ever had?
6. Are you a cat person or a dog person?
7. What’s your favorite place of all the places you have traveled to?
8. Do you have a bucket list, what’s on it?
9. If you could have any exotic animal as a pet, which would it be?
10. Who is the most interesting person you’ve ever met, and why?
11. What was the last thing you were excited about?
12. Do you believe in having a “five-year plan”?
13. What’s more important to you: family or friends?
14. If you won 10 million dollars, what would you do with the money?
15. What would you say to your 16 years old self?
16. If you could relive one moment in your life, which would it be?
17. Do you hit the snooze button or wake up immediately?
18. What’s your most controversial opinion?
19. What’s an irrational fear you have?
20. What is something you will never do again?
21. How many birds would it take to kill a human?
22. How do you answer the question: “What’s up?”
23. What language do you wish you could speak?
24. What was the weirdest conversation you have ever had?
25. What was the worst movie you ever watched?
26. What celebrity would you want to be trapped in an elevator with?
27. What ist the funniest Wifi name you have ever seen?
28. What makes a good life?
29. Do you have any phobia?
30. Which job would you never take, and why?

More Getting to know you Questions ✌️

If you need more conversation topics, you can find even more icebreaker questions here.

1. Who is your hero?
2. What does a perfect weekend look like to you?
3. Do you prefer watching movies or reading books?
4. Are you an introvert or an extravert?
5. What is your most unshakeable belief?
6. Do you think money can make you happy?
7. What kind of music do you like?
8. What is something you hate?
9. What would you want to change in the world?
10. What kind of sport do you like best and why?
11. What are your goals in life?
12. What is one thing that you want to change in your life?
13. What is one personality trait you can’t stand?
14. What did you want to become when you were a kid?
15. What makes you happy?
16. How do you relax in stressful times?
17. What has been the lowest point in your life?
18. How do you imagine the world in 2050?
19. What is the best lie you have ever told as a child?
20. What do you miss about your childhood?
21. What is the most useless animal, in your opinion?
22. What TV shows did you watch when you were a kid?
23. Have you ever been in love?
24. Which actor/actress would play you in a movie about your life?
25. What can you talk about all day long?
26. What movie universe would you most like to live in?
27. What will people be nostalgic for in 40 years?
28. What are the top 3 things you want to accomplish in your life?
29. If you were a mad scientist, what scientific experiment would you run if money and ethics weren’t an issue?

You can find more questions here: 👉 250+ Questions to get to know someone

Would you rather Icebreaker Questions 🤔

Here are some of the best “Would you rather” Questions to ask your friends, family, and other people.

1. Would you rather do the first job you ever had for the rest of your life or have 10 babies?
2. Would you rather be dumb and happy or intelligent and depressed?
3. Would you rather have hands that never stop growing or feet that never stop growing?
4. Would you rather stop climate change or end all wars on Earth?
5. Would you rather be insane and know that your insane or be insane and believe you are sane?
6. Would you rather travel 100 years in the future or 100 years in the past?
7. Would you rather stay in a room for a night with 50 spiders or 50 mosquitos?
8. Would you rather never be able to eat anything sweet or never be able to eat anything salty?
9. Would you rather give up all Social Media for the rest of your life or never watch Netflix again?
10. Would you rather be stuck on an island alone for the rest of your life or be stuck on an island with annoying people?
11. Would you rather be able to speak all human languages or talk to animals?
12. Would you rather be able to fly or be invisible?
13. Would you rather lose your phone once a month for the rest of your life or lose your keys once a month for the rest of your life?
14. Would you rather have a rewind button or a pause button in your life?
15. Would you rather give up showering for a month or give up the internet for a month?
16. Would you rather have a head the size of a watermelon or a head the size of a tennis ball?
17. Would you rather have the ability to talk to animals that fly, land animals, or animals that live underwater?
18. Would you rather begin every sentence with “According to my calculations”, or end every sentence with “Period”?
19. Would you rather always have to rap instead of speaking or always have to sing instead of speaking?
20. Would you rather always have an itchy spot that you can’t scratch or always feel like you have to sneeze?
21. Would you rather be woken up by your favorite song or by an alarm?
22. Would you rather drink coffee or tea?
23. Would you rather be able to teleport or fly?
24. Would you rather fight 50 cat-sized humans or one human-sized cat?
25. Would you rather live without heating or without AC?
26. Would you rather give up your smartphone or your computer/laptop?
27. Would you rather your parents or your siblings pick your next boyfriend/girlfriend?
28. Would you rather have a pet parrot or a pet squirrel?
29. Would you rather kill one innocent person or kill five people who committed minor crimes?
30. Would you rather have uncontrollable gas at work for the rest of your life or uncontrollable gas on every first date for the rest of your life?

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If you could Icebreaker Questions 🧐

What if…? Do you like to philosophize about the world? Than these hypothetical questions are just right for you.

1. If you were a professional wrestler, what would be your entrance theme song?
2. If the zombie apocalypse is coming, who are 2 people you want on your team?
3. If you could choose between living in the 60s, 70s, 80s, or 90s: Which decade would you choose and why?
4. If you could rename one body part, which body part would you choose, and what would you name it?
5. If you could be reincarnated as an animal of your choice, which animal would you choose, and why?
6. If you could be immortal, which age would you like to stay forever?
7. If you could have a superpower, what would it be?
8. If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would it be?
9. If you could make one rule that everyone had to follow, what rule would you make?
10. If you could know the absolute truth to one question, what question would you ask?
11. If you could choose to eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be?
12. If you could travel anywhere, where would you go and why?
13. If you could solve one world problem, what would it be?
14. If you could resurrect one person, who would you choose and why?
15. If you could give me only one tip to improve my life, what would it be?
16. If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?
17. If you could have a slogan describing you, what would it be, and why?
18. If you could have five superpowers, which would you pick and why?
19. If you could choose one item to erase from the world, what would it be?
20. If you could redesign humans, how would you make them better?
21. If you could have a never-ending candle that smelled like anything you wanted, what fragrance would you want it to be?
22. If you could remove one memory from your life, what would it be?
23. If you could only wear one color for the rest of your life, what color would it be?
24. If you could morph two animals to make one new animal, what two animals would you choose, and how would you name it?
25. If you could bring back a fashion trend, what would it be?
26. If you could have a conversation with any one of our world leaders, who would you choose and why?
27. If you could visit any planet, which would it be?
28. If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
29. If you could live out the life and storyline of one character in the Harry Potter series, who would you pick and why?
30. If you had to teach a class on one thing, what would you teach?

Ice breaker Questions for Work 💼

On average, people spend one-third of their lifetime at work. We spend more time with our coworkers than our family. That’s the hard truth. That’s why it is important to establish a good relationship with your colleagues. In your next lunch break, you should ask some of the questions below to bond with your colleagues.

1. What three words describe you the best?
2. What’s the worse excuse you have ever used?
3. If your boss was a fictional character, which one would he/she be?
4. What’s your go-to productivity trick?
5. If you could change one thing in your company, what would it be?
6. What is the best compliment that you have ever received from someone?
7. What do you like the most about your job?
8. What’s the biggest misconception people have about you?
9. If you could become an expert in anything you want this instant, what would it be?
10. What was your dream job when you were a child?
11. Are you a procrastinator?
12. Name one colleague who is the most likely to survive a zombie apocalypse?
13. What’s your standard uniform when you’re working from home?
14. Are you planning any trips this year?
15. What’s the first thing you do when you come home from work?
16. What’s a mistake you made early on in your career? What did you learn from it?
17. Where would you invest if you had one million dollars right now?
18. What is your biggest weakness?
19. Which two coworkers would you want on your team during a zombie apocalypse?
20. What’s your least favorite thing at work?
21. What’s your morning routine?
22. What household chore do you hate the most?
23. What’s your favorite season?
24. If you had to list four books everyone should read at least once, what would you list?
25. What were some hobbies you had as a kid?
26. Have you ever met anyone famous?
27. If you had to describe what you do professionally in 5 words, what would they be?
28. What’s one artist/celebrity that you’re embarrassed to admit you like?
29. Would you rather live in the city or in the countryside for the rest of your life?
30. What’s your favorite activity to unwind after a busy day?

Best Ice breakers for Meetings 🤝

Ice breaker questions boost your and your co-workers’ motivation and therefore lead to more productivity. These questions will create a relaxed atmosphere for your next meeting.

1. What would you change if you were the CEO of the company you work for?
2. What are misconceptions about your job?
3. Who do you admire and why?
4. If you could learn one new skill this instant, what would it be?
5. What is one of your greatest achievements?
6. What’s your weirdest family tradition?
7. What do you want to do when you retire?
8. If you would win 10 million dollars, would you quit your job?
9. If there was no dress code, how would you dress for work?
10. What was the first thing you bought with your own money?
11. Which book would you recommend for everyone to read?
12. What’s your biggest weakness?
13. What’s your least favorite place in the world?
14. What has been the highlight of your day so far?
15. What’s a useless skill you have?
16. What is something you believed earlier in your career, but think about differently now?
17. What is your secret talent?
18. If you could end world hunger, but everyone would have to eat the same bland food, would you do it?
19. Is there something you would like to change about yourself? If so, what would you like to change?
20. What’s the nicest thing a co-worker has ever done to you?
21. What’s your favorite physical attribute about yourself?
22. Who is the bravest person you know?
23. What personal trait has gotten you in the most trouble?
24. Who’s your celebrity crush?
25. If someone hacked into your computer and was threatening to release your browser history to your boss, how much would you pay them to avoid it?
26. What do you think is the greatest invention of all time?
27. What do you lie most about?
28. If you had to replace your hands with something other than hands, what would you choose and why?
29. If you could change one thing about your life, what would it be?
30. What’s one food you could never bring yourself to eat?

Icebreaker Questions for Teachers 👩🏼‍🏫

New year, new class. It’s important to have a good relationship with your students. We have created this list for teachers to ensure a friendly and welcoming start in a new school year.

1. What subjects should be taught in school, but aren’t?
2. What would you buy with 100 dollars?
3. If you were the headmaster of your school, what changes would you make?
4. What is your dream job?
5. If you could ask the president one question, what would you ask?
6. What kind of animal represents your personality the best?
7. What’s the most embarrassing thing you did?
8. If you could design a school uniform, what would it look like?
9. How would you describe yourself in three words?
10. What’s your least favorite subject in school?
11. What are you passionate about?
12. What are you proud of?
13. What is an app you hate, but you still use it anyway?
14. Would you like to be able to see in the future? Why? Why not?
15. What is your biggest fear?
16. If you could trade lives for a day with a person of your choice, who would it be and why?
17. What is an annoying habit of yours?
18. How do you imagine your life in 10 years?
19. Who is your role model in life?
20. If you could create a law, what would it be?
21. What is your nickname?
22. How would you describe the perfect teacher?
23. If you could be any flavor of ice cream, what flavor would you want to be?
24. Do you consider yourself as a couch potato or an athlete?
25. Do you know any other languages?
26. What is something you have in common with the person next to you?
27. What would you do if you were a billionaire?
28. Do you play any instrument?
29. What word would you add to the dictionary, and what would it mean?
30. What do you want to learn about this year?

Icebreakers for College Students 🤓

College life includes meeting a bunch of new people. These questions will help you to get to know your classmates and make new friends.

1. If aliens landed on Earth and offered to take you home with them, would you go?
2. What fictional world or universe would you like to visit?
3. What fictional character would you like to meet?
4. What’s the dumbest thing you have ever done?
5. If you could be teleported anywhere you wanted to, where would you go?
6. What movie or book would you change the ending if you could?
7. If you had a theme song or a soundtrack of your life, what would it be?
8. What was your first job?
9. What would be your first question after waking up from being cryogenically frozen for 100 years?
10. If you were heard by everyone in the world for 30 seconds, what would you say?
11. What did you think was cool then, when you were young but isn’t cool now?
12. What would a mirror opposite of yourself be like?
13. What’s your current favorite TV-Show to binge-watch on Netflix or Amazon Prime?
14. If someone made a movie of your life, what genre would it be? (comedy, romantic-comedy, action movie, science fiction, drama,…)
15. Who has been the biggest influence in your life?
16. What band or singer were you obsessed with in middle school?
17. What’s the longest time you’ve gone without talking to anyone?
18. What’s a joke that’s so stupid it’s funny?
19. What is the best event you have ever attended?
20. What is something that most people are obsessed with, but you just don’t get the point of it?
21. If you went 10 years into the future and could only make one Google search before returning, what would it be?
22. Who would be your celebrity hook-up if you had the chance?
23. What does a typical day of yours look like?
24. What was a turning point that changed your life?
25. What app do you use most often?
26. Would you rather be with someone who plans every little detail, or someone who is entirely spontaneous?
27. Have you ever stalked your crush or ex on any social media platform?
28. What are some of your funniest/craziest drunk stories?
29. How different is your life from one year ago?
30. What’s the most embarrassing thing that has happened to you in front of your crush?

Icebreakers for Teens 😎

Here are some fun and also thought-provoking questions to ask your friends.

1. What’s your favorite meme?
2. If you have an itch in your nose, in your butt, and on your eye, which one do you scratch first?
3. What is your most-used emoji?
4. If your life was a movie, what genre would it be, and who would play you?
5. What was the worst style choice you ever made?
6. What movie made you cry?
7. TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, what do you like the most?
8. What is the most annoying habit someone can have?
9. If you were going to bury a time capsule, what would you put in?
10. What was the last thing you couldn’t get off your mind?
11. Have you ever borrowed something and never have returned it yet?
12. What is one thing you don’t know how to do, but wish you did?
13. What weird talents do you have?
14. Do you think humans be able to solve the climate change problem before it’s too late?
15. What is something you really like about yourself?
16. Do you have any concerns about your future?
17. What’s the worst present you’ve ever received?
18. What’s your silliest “first world problem”?
19. What is the worst thing that a person can put on their bio on a dating app?
20. What is one thing you couldn’t live without?
21. What reality show would you like to be on?
22. If you were to hear one last song before you die, which one would it be?
23. Would you eat less meat if you had to kill it all yourself?
24. If you could write a love letter to your favorite food, what would you write?
25. If you could remove one emotion from your life, what would that be?
26. What’s the most embarrassing thing that happened to you in class?
27. Who is your crush?
28. What was your first kiss like, and how old were you?
29. What’s one annoying thing about your parents?
30. What do you think about veganism?

Small group icebreakers 💬

These fun questions are ideal for small groups, such as workgroups, to get to know each other.

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1. Do you collect anything?
2. If you met Donald Trump on a public toilet, what would you say or do?
3. Have you ever given someone a piece of bad advice?
4. What is your favorite food that everyone would most likely hate?
5. If you had to be someone else, who would you be, and why?
6. What is your most unshakeable belief?
7. If you have the choice between knowing all the secrets of the universe, and one billion dollars, which would you choose?
8. Are you an early bird or a night owl?
9. Have you ever experienced karma in real life?
10. Who do you trust most in life?
11. If you had to choose a species to become extinct, which one would you choose and why?
12. What always makes you laugh?
13. Do you like surprises?
14. Do you believe in fate?
15. What was the weirdest dream you ever had?
16. What was the first concert you went to?
17. What’s the best gift you have ever received?
18. What dog breed would you be?
19. Who’s your worst enemy?
20. What movie do you wish you could watch it again for the first time?
21. If you had to change your name, what would you change it to?
22. What food will you never eat again?
23. What emoji best describes your personality?
24. If your dog pulled a gun on you, what would you do?
25. What’s your favorite dessert?
26. How do you want to be remembered?
27. Does your car have a name?
28. If you had to create a new cult, what would it be about?
29. If you were reincarnated as a plant, which plant would you like to be?
30. If you were god, what would you do?

Ice breaker Questions for Kids 🥳

Rainy afternoon or a boring car ride? Here are some interesting questions to ask kids to overcome boredom.

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1. What do you want to be when you grow up?
2. What’s your favorite animal, and why?
3. What’s your favorite TV-Show?
4. What’s the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to you?
5. What was your favorite family vacation, and why?
6. What superhero power would you like to have?
7. What is your favorite color?
8. What is your favorite video game?
9. What do you like more, TikTok or YouTube?
10. Do you want to have a tattoo in the future? What tattoo would you get?
11. What is the best prank someone’s ever played on you?
12. What scares you?
13. Have you ever lied to your parents?
14. Do you have any pets?
15. Have you ever cheated on a test?
16. What would you do if you were invisible for a day?
17. What would you wish for if a genie gave you three wishes?
18. What is your favorite hobby?
19. Which fictional character would you like to be best friends with?
20. What’s the best Halloween costume you have ever worn?
21. What toppings do you like on your pizza?
22. Do you like school?
23. How often do you use the internet?
24. What is your silliest dance move?
25. What’s your favorite subject in school?
26. What’s your least favorite vegetable?
27. If you forgot to do your homework, what excuse would you use?
28. What always makes you laugh?
29. If you would find a stray kitten, what would you do?
30. What was the happiest day of your life so far?

Here you find even more kid-friendly questions: 👉 “Would you rather” for Kids

Bonus: Funny Questions to Ask 😂

Funny questions are, in my opinion, the best Ice breakers ever. That’s why we created an additional list with hilarious questions to ask your friends.

1. If you were a dictator of a small island nation, what crazy dictator stuff would you do?
2. If you were transported 200 years into the past, how would you prove that you were from the future?
3. What things did you do as a kid that you now realize is extremely weird?
4. Do you fold your pizza when you eat it?
5. What are 5 random facts about yourself?
6. What is something trendy today, but in 5 years, everyone will look back on and be embarrassed by?
7. What sort of things do you do when no one is watching?
8. What hobby would you get into if time and money weren’t an issue?
9. What’s the weirdest place you have urinated?
10. How would you explain the internet to your grandparents?
11. Do you wipe front to back or back to front?
12. What movie would be significantly improved if it was made into a musical?
13. What was your most embarrassing moment in front of a doctor?
14. What is your most embarrassing moment from high school?
15. What job would you be terrible at?
16. If you had the power to shrink one object of your choice and carry it with you in your pocket, which item would it be?
17. What is something that is normal in movies, but never happens in real life?
18. What would you do if you were the only human left on Earth?
19. What would be the worst name you could give your child?
20. If animals could talk, which would be the most polite?
21. What are you addicted to?
22. Would you rather never have to wash dishes or never have to do laundry ever again?
23. Do you dance in front of the mirror when you’re alone?
24. Have you ever said hi to someone on the street thinking they were someone else?
25. How do you handle people you don’t like?
26. What is the worst purchase you have ever made?
27. Have you ever lied to get out of a tricky situation?
28. Have you ever tripped and fallen in public?
29. What is your favorite midnight snack?
30. What is the most spontaneous thing you have ever done?

That’s it. We hope you found some inspiration for your next conversation. If you need more conversation topics, make sure to check out our list of conversation starters: 👉 250 Conversation Starters