60 March icebreakers for work meetings
Good March icebreakers ride the month’s moments: spring, St. Patrick’s Day, Women’s History Month, March Madness and Pi Day. Here are 60 questions anyone can answer, plus 5 quick games.
March icebreakers are short questions and games for the first five to ten minutes of a meeting, themed to the month: the first days of spring, St. Patrick’s Day on March 17, Women’s History Month, office brackets and Pi Day on March 14. Every question below works for coworkers, on video or in the office, whether or not they celebrate anything in March.
60 March icebreaker questions
Screen-share the card and press Next for a random March question, or pick from the six sets below.
What is the first sign of spring where you live?
Spring icebreaker questions
The first day of spring is March 20 in 2027. These work all month, for any team, anywhere it is still cold.
1. What is the first sign of spring where you live?
2. What is one thing you are waiting to do until it is warm enough outside?
3. Which spring chore do you secretly enjoy?
4. If someone handed you a small garden bed, what would you plant?
5. Do you change anything about your workspace when the seasons change?
6. Which fruit or vegetable are you happiest to see back in season?
7. What is your favorite walking route once the weather turns?
8. Which outdoor lunch spot near you deserves more fans?
9. What is one skill you want to pick up before summer?
10. What would you spring-clean first in your files or inbox, given one free hour?
11. Which city would you visit for the first week of spring?
12. What did spring break look like for you as a kid?
St. Patrick's Day icebreaker questions
St. Patrick's Day is Wednesday, March 17, 2027. These are about luck, green and stories, so everyone can answer whether they celebrate or not.
13. What is your favorite thing that happens to be green?
14. Do you have a lucky charm, or do you not believe in luck at all?
15. What is the luckiest thing that ever happened to you at work?
16. Would you rather find a four-leaf clover or see a double rainbow?
17. Have you ever been to a big parade? Which one would you like to see?
18. What is a tradition from your family or hometown you wish more people knew?
19. If you could learn one traditional dance from anywhere, which would it be?
20. What green place, in Ireland or anywhere else, is on your travel list?
21. Who is the best storyteller you know, and what makes them good?
22. What song gets you on your feet no matter where you are?
Want the whole team playing for an hour on the 17th? A live host runs it on Zoom or Teams: see virtual St. Patrick’s Day events. For questions with answers, use our St. Patrick’s Day trivia.
Women's History Month icebreaker questions
March is Women's History Month in the US. Everyone on the team can answer these, and the answers often turn into names worth looking up.
23. Which woman has had the biggest influence on your career so far?
24. Which woman from history would you invite to lunch, and what would you ask her?
25. What book, film or podcast about a woman's life stuck with you?
26. Which woman in your field should more people know about?
27. What is the best advice a woman mentor or manager ever gave you?
28. Which woman teacher or coach changed how you saw yourself?
29. Which invention or discovery by a woman do you rely on every week?
30. What woman-founded business do you love supporting?
31. If we hung one woman's portrait in our office, who should it be?
32. What is one thing our team could do this month to support women's growth at work?
Planning a Women’s History Month event for an ERG or the whole company? Women’s History Month trivia with a live host fills an hour with no prep on your side.
March Madness icebreaker questions
The college basketball tournaments fill offices with brackets from mid-March. These questions work for fans and for people who have never watched a game.
33. How do you pick a bracket: research, mascots, team colors or not at all?
34. What is the best team nickname you have ever heard, in any league?
35. What is the best upset you have ever seen, in any sport or game?
36. Which sport would you play professionally if talent were guaranteed?
37. What is your pregame ritual before a big presentation?
38. What was your best buzzer-beater moment at work, a deadline met with seconds to spare?
39. Who was your favorite coach growing up, on any kind of team?
40. Which underdog story, sports or not, do you always root for?
41. What team have you been on that was more than the sum of its parts?
42. Which snack would win a bracket of office snacks?
Running an office bracket? Our guide to March Madness at work has bracket ideas for people who don’t follow basketball.
Pi Day icebreaker questions (March 14)
March 14 is 3/14, so math fans celebrate pi. Bring pie if you can.
43. Sweet pie or savory pie?
44. What is the best pie you have ever had, and where was it?
45. How many digits of pi can you say without looking?
46. Is there a number that means something to you? What is the story?
47. Which number would you wear on a team jersey, and why?
48. What is a stat about your work that you are quietly proud of?
49. What is the most useful formula or shortcut you use at work?
50. Which was harder for you in school: math or writing?
Spring forward and end of Q1 questions
In most of the US, clocks spring forward on the second Sunday of March (March 14 in 2027, Pi Day too), and the first quarter ends with the month.
51. How long does it take you to adjust when the clocks change?
52. If you got one extra hour every day this month, what would you do with it?
53. What will you do with the extra evening daylight?
54. Which is harder for you: losing an hour in March or the dark afternoons of winter?
55. Which time of day do you do your sharpest work?
56. What is the best thing our team finished this quarter?
57. What habit did you start in January that actually stuck?
58. What is one small win from this month that nobody noticed?
59. What is one thing you want to finish before the quarter ends?
60. Which recurring meeting would you trade for a walk?
