121+ Fun Group activities for adults that doesn't focus on just drinking

People have this concept that if you stop drinking you will be missing out on the fun! Truth is, if you don't drink you will be able to remember the fun.

Base on my observations group activities that focus more on sitting, talking or eating quite often is accompanied with drinking. Therefore, to avoid drinking a lot chose group activities that involves less standing, sitting and that are not focus on food too.

You should know that doing something that’s really active makes it difficult for you to want to drink. An active activity will keep the conversation going while replacing the need to drink since all that energy is being used for the task. 

If you must drink, drink responsibly.

I have tried a lot of these activities listed here both indoors and outdoors and some have been quite hilarious and others didn’t meet my expectations. Don’t get me wrong, am quite the adventurous type too! I will equally highlight a few of my favorites too. Here is my to-do-list of group activities that doesn't focus on just drinking.

Note: Most of these activities are very fun, simple, and cheap and requires no experience to engage in. 

Fun Group activities for adults that doesn't focus on just drinking

1. Go to concerts of any kind and See live music.
2. Join a hobby session together (example swing dance, or horse riding).
3. Go to a family-friendly arcade (less booze around kids).
4. Take Walk to a nature park, lodge, Water parks etc.
5. Rent bicycles together and ride around the country side. 
6. Form a book club.
7. Buy one of those super intricate adult board games beyond the classic ones and have a game night.
8. Theater show.
9. Rent a boat and go sailing on the sea, or lake, or whatever your group decides.
10. Go Rock Climbing (one thing to keep in mind, have an expert to drill you all the safety tips). 
11. Dining out (or if you are so fun of your buddies you all can decide to take turns may be at the end of each month whose house is going to host for dinner.)
12. Pool party ( alcohol is optional). 
13. Lego party (you can ask your friends to bring their Lego sets).
14. Get a huge white sheet and a mini-projector and find a good spot near you to have a mini cinema night. 
15. Go Bible study with a couple of your religious friends.
16. Booking a private Karaoke room.
17. Go play corn hole, friends and family will have a freaky blast.
18. Hiking, if you have a good trail in mind then you all will be blast.
19. Escape room game trying to solve an escape room may live you hyperventilating with excitement.
20. Go to a local co-op farms or orchard and pick your own vegetables or fruits.
21. Go karting (one of my favorite preferably near you).
22. Ice skating. 
23. Camping as a group.
24. Take a college class together, even if you all suck at painting. 
25. Visit an Amusement park on a weekend preferably since you may be busy during the week.  
26. Mini Golf, It is cheap, there may be probably one near and it’s also very competitive. 
27. Explore new neighborhoods.
28. Kick ball on the beach (rubber balls are cheap). 
29. Hide and seek in the dark (fun if you have creative places to hide, bathroom cupboards are my favorite). 
30. Kayaking (you can experiment between oceans and river kayaking).
31. Visit museums and Art galleries.
32. Visit a video arcade. 
33. Dance classes (social and keeps you fit).
34. Trips to the beach.
35. Going Caving and it is free in most areas.
36. Playing soccer.
37. Make your own game together.
38. Make your own stories together.
39. Hang out and watch a series.
40. Make a fort, for everyone loves pillow forts.
41. Coloring nights (Your group may love coloring).
42. Go take a walk in a graveyard. Bonus points if you do it at night.
43. Start a workout or walking or running club. 
44. Volunteering at a local animal shelter. Everyone likes to play with puppies or kittens
45. Go out for coffee, espresso and tea at a great cafe.
46. Play VR arcade games and hey! They even support co-op.  
47. Join a sport league for it gonna help you all stay fit. 
48. Have a Political debate. If you got an odd circle of friends, chances are, you and your crew may necessarily agree on a lot of things, but not all, and the differences may lead to some fairly fierce arguments.
49. Going scavenger hunt.
50. Geocaching, lots of cache to trace using your GPS or a mobile app like C:Geo.
51. Dog party: everyone brings their dogs, and plays with them.
52. Going swimming in a lake.
53. Tubing (preferably something near).
54. Top Golf (if there is one near you).
55. Playing Street ball.

25 Fun games to play with friends indoors

Some of these games may be complicated at first but with time you and if you find the right people, your all will catch the intended fun playing these games. Most of them will be tempting to play when drinking but I know you made up your mind not to drink. In fact playing games with friends are very fun, immersing, cooperative, and kills time. 

1. Play ludo (the one I played up to four people can play at a time. 
2. The resistance game is similar to werewolf or mafia just that players are not eliminated between rounds.
3. Play Rattles d20
4. Board games (Some good board games beyond the classics: Tokaido, Forbidden Desert, Betrayal at the House on the Hill, Camel Up, Dead of Winter, Space Alert, Settlers of Catan, Dominion, Bang, Cash, monopoly, Guns and Settlers of Catan are just a few of my favorite board games to play because they are so easy and anybody can play).
5. Carcassonne (You will need to pay a few dollars for full expansion) 
6. Laser tag
7. Cards against Humanity
8. Escape room
9. Multiplayer games like Nintendo 64. 
10. Betrayal at House on the Hill (A semi-random horror board game)
11. Munchkin (a card game)
12. Cards against Humanity
13. Play Codename
14. Play Telestrations for this one is so hilarious!
15. Pictionary 
16. The T-Shirt Game
17. Dungeons and dragons (and a great way to stretch muscles).
18. Pokémon Go.
19. Playing Chess
20. Playing Smash.
21. Playing Pathfinder
22. League of Legends (You may forget yourself playing this game alone! so much fun but once you a have couple of friends over who know how to have fun with this game then you all are just going to have a blast.) 
23. Play Jackbox Games (like Drawful, Fibbage, and Quiplash)
24. Play Fluxx
25. Play Fiasco! All it takes is the book and sufficient dice (4/person) in your group. 

13 Fun indoor group activities for adults

If you are more of the indoor type, here are few of my favorite, fun and cheap activities to do indoors; 

1. Cooking night, Look up simple recipes that only need a few cheap ingredients and cooking it together.
2. Pick out random foods that you have around the house, and do a chopped style cooking competition.
3. Telestrations (this how this game is played, your friends should all have a pad of paper to writes down a creative statement and hand over the pad to another person, the person then reads and draws a picture of what it written and also passes the pad to the next person who then have to guess what has been written based on the picture drawn.
4. Card games random examples are war, rat slap and crazy eights.
5. Get together and watching TV during movie nights, and constantly recommend TV shows and animes to each other.
6. Telephone Pictionary.
7. Sock wrestling or sock off (after all the wrestle, last person with still socks on wins).
8. Cleaning and doing laundry together ease the work on one person. 
9. Drawception (quite similar to telestrations but it is more of a picture or drawing game were sheets are folded to conceal the pictures inside and pass around to the next person were the folded sheets are unfolded and the pictures interpreted. 
10. Dice games random examples are beetle, yahtzee and farkle. 
11. Indoor bowling (will require some extra space indoors).
12. Russian Submarine (get a group of friends into a studio, cover the windows and under cracks of your door with blankets then unscrew all light bulbs and replace with a predominant single red bulb. have some bread or pickles and water with you and then wait it out for the first person who get bored and opens the door.
13. Going Treasure hunt. 

29 Fun Outdoors group activities for adults

If you are an outdoorsy person, you will find some of these activities listed here to be fun and hilarious, your only problem should be to find the right people to join you. Here some fun things you can do with your friends:

1. Jet skiing in a local lake.
2. Disc Golf, is an amazing sport, lots of fresh air and significantly cheaper than its ball counterpart, most courses are free and the discs are inexpensive! Find a course near you.
3. Setup an outdoor movie night.
4. Go on Road trips together, preferably around the countryside and chat aimlessly. Works best at night for if you live urban areas, the traffic is going to be busy.  
5. Swimming.
6. Go-cart racing.
7. Ultimate Frisbee. So hilarious!
8. Going Picnic in the park, never underestimate sitting under a big tree and eating some treats.
9. Going to Flea Markets
10. Visit Zoos and aquariums
11. Go to conventions together.
12. Go thrift store or junk store shopping, it great to out useful thing in a bin of unsorted items. 
13. Bonfires.
14. Hire some mountain bikes near you, pick a route, and go and explore. 
15. Movie marathons.
16. Hiking and camping, doesn’t need to be strenuous, just take basic supplies and a simple jaunt in the woods counts, and its super fun exploring. 
17. Go Fishing
18. Paint balling.
19. Going kayaking.
20. Going to Yard Sales.
21. Get a fire pit.
22. Arcades.
23. Trying new restaurants.
24. Biking or skating.
25. Sports games.
26. Grilling.
27. Museums and galleries.
28. Geocaching is a great cheap thing to do; you don’t need an expensive GPS for just your Smartphone and some gas money will be enough for you can go search for cache. Some of these caches are difficult to find but you can simplify that with the help of a Google map. Groundspeak owns geocaching.com, and it is the website that has the most listed caches, by far. If you're android I would recommend you download C:Geo. 
29. Playing Letterboxing. It is quite similar to Geocaching, except it different for it is much of a glorified scavenger hunt.

What group activity did I miss? Let me know how you have fun with your friends.