100 Icebreaker Questions for Women’s Retreats

Having a good supply of icebreaker questions for your women’s retreats is always a great idea. In fact, they can be used for all kinds of ministry events.

Whether you’re in charge of a meeting, a one-day retreat, or a weekend event, it’s good to have icebreakers and discussion questions available to keep conversations running smoothly.

In this list of 100 icebreaker questions, I’ve divided them into categories of funny, casual, and serious so that you easily find what you need. 

Funny and casual questions are perfect for ladies who are meeting for the first time. The deeper questions work best for those who have known each other for a while.

Along with the serious questions in this post, you might also want to check out the article, Deep Icebreaker Questions for Women’s Retreats.

Funny Icebreaker Questions

1. What’s the worst haircut you ever day?
2. What’s your biggest pet peeve?
3. Who is your favorite cartoon character?
4. What’s the best prank you’ve ever played on someone?
5. What is your guilty pleasure?
6. What commercial jingle gets stuck in your head all the time?
7. What are your favorite songs from your teenage years that you still listen to?
8. If you could pick a TV show to be your life, what show would it be?
9. What’s your silliest memory with your best friend?
10. What’s the grossest food you ever had to eat to be polite?
11. Who was your childhood actor/actress crush?
    
12. What was your most embarrassing moment as a child or teen?
13. What was your most embarrassing moment as an adult?
14. What’s the most ridiculous thing you parents did to embarrass you?
15. What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever done to embarrass someone else?
16. What’s the funniest thing that’s ever happened to you on vacation?
17. What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?
18. What’s the best knock knock joke you know?
19. If you had to be an animal, which animal would you be?
20. If your best friend picked a tattoo for you to get, what would he/she pick?
    
21. What completely safe animal are you scared of?
22. What’s your funniest talent?
23. Which Disney character’s story most represents your own life?
24. What popular saying or expression did you overuse in high school?
25. Do you have any crazy roommate stories?
26. What was the worst style choice you ever made?
27. What did you name your first car?
28. What’s your most used emoji?
29. If you were on a talk show, what song would they play to introduce you?
30. If you were famous, what would you be famous for?

Casual Icebreakers Questions

31. What is your favorite restaurant?
32. What 2 things do you consider you’re very good at?
33. What 2 things do you consider you’re very bad at?
34. If you could be any fictional character, who would you be?
35. What Netflix show have you binge watched?
36. What is your least favorite job you’ve ever had?
37. What is your most favorite job you’ve ever had?
38. Who was the best grade school teacher you ever had?
39. Who is your most interesting relative?
40. What two things top your bucket list?
    
41. What was the first concert you ever went to?
42. What’s your favorite book? Why?
43. Who is your favorite author?
44. If you could ask your favorite author a question, what would it be?
45. What was your first record (cassette, CD) you owned?
46. If you were famous, what would you be famous for?
47. Have you ever gotten lost? What happened?
48. What’s your favorite tradition or holiday?
49. What is one thing we don’t know about you?
50. Are you a cat person or a dog person?
    
51. What is your absolute dream job?
52. What weird fact do you happen to know?
53. What’s your favorite breakfast food?
54. Coffee or tea?
55. Teleportation or flying?
56. What is your favorite dessert?
57. What’s your favorite TV show?
58. If you were a book, what would your title be?
59. What’s your favorite way to get exercise?
60. What sibling are you? Youngest? Oldest? Middle? Only?
    
61. What language would you like to learn?
62. Would you rather be the funniest or the smartest person in the room?
63. Where in the world would you live if money wasn’t an issue?
64. What’s your favorite ride at a theme park?
65. Would you rather be at the beach or in the mountains?

Deep Icebreaker Questions

66. What is your most treasured material possession? Why?
67. Who was your favorite teacher in school and how did he/she influence you?
68. Who is your hero and why?
69. What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
70. What would the title of your autobiography be?
    
71. When you die, what would you like to be remembered by the people who love you?
72. If you could add a face to Mount Rushmore, who would it be?
73. What scientific discovery would you like to have made?
74. What’s one word that describes life?
75. What’s one word that doesn’t describe life?
76. What is a childhood memory that still inspires your life?
77. What habit do you have that you’d like to break?
78. What frightens you the most?
79. Would you rather become someone else or just be you?
80. Would you rather put a stop to war or end world hunger?
    
81. What was the most important chance encounter you’ve ever had?
82. What defines a good life?
83. What are some of your plans for the future?
84. Why does happiness come easily to some and not to others?
85. What was the scariest dream you’ve ever had?
86. What is the most calming image you can visualize?
87. How could your boss do their job better?
88. What helps you relieve stress?
89. Who inspires you to be a better person?
90. Who do you depend on the most?
    
91. What always makes you laugh?
92. What job would you never want?
93. If you could ask one person one question, who is it and what would you ask?
94. Would you rather be wealthy or healthy?
95. What historical event inspires you the most?
96. Have you ever taken responsibility for someone else’s mistake?
97. What happy moment will you always remember?
98. What is your favorite memory?
99. What’s the great invention of your lifetime?
100. What is one life lesson you will never forget?

With this ultimate list of icebreaker questions, you’ll be able to help your ministry group get to know each other on all sorts of levels.

Looking for more questions for fostering discussion? Check out these this or that questions for couples.

Do you have any favorite questions or activities you’ve done as icebreakers in the past? I’d love to hear about them in the comments below.

And be sure to check out these icebreaker activities as well. I know everyone will have a great time with any and all of these:

Balloon Scriptures Icebreaker

Fabulous 4 Corners

Marooned

Colorful Candy Confessions

Who Am I Icebreaker

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