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Team Building Exercises With Ropes

by Maria McCarron, Demand Media

Group jump rope is one exercise for team building using ropes.

Team building exercises with ropes are a good way to encourage critical thinking and communication as well as build cooperation and trust between employees. Activities using ropes involve low physical activity and a low degree of emotional stress, according to Team Craft. so just about any company's employees can participate. Many corporations use team building exercises to build corporate culture and motivate employees. Discussing how each person felt participating in each exercise is an important part of the process that helps build more trust and understanding that can be carried into an office environment.

Crossing the Line

The goal of crossing the line is to coerce another person to the other side of the circle without touching them physically, according to Team Building USA. Place a rope on a floor in a circle, and divide the circle in half by using tape. Select two volunteers from a group of employees, and ask them to face each other on each side of the circle. To get a person to cross the line, the two can argue, lecture, bribe and trick each other.

Rope Knots Game

In the rope knots game, each person must do his part to untie the knots in the group or help each other reach the goal of untying them all, according to Team Building. Take one long rope, and tie a knot for every person in the group. Space the knots evenly apart. Tell every person to hold onto the rope on one side of a knot, leaving them one free hand to untie knots. Everyone must then untie all of the knots in the rope without anyone letting go or moving their hands on the rope. Once the knots are all united, the exercise is complete.

Spider Web

Team members must move all people through different shapes made with string, according to Team Craft. To do this activity a group needs to make a spiderweb using string. Team members need to pass each other through different holes in the spiderweb and are given 30 minutes to do so. No hole should be used twice. The group has to figure out who fits through which hole and which order they should go through. The team that completes the task in the least amount of time wins.

Rope Square

The purpose of rope square is to work as a team under a confusing situation, according to Team Craft. Tie a piece or rope so it forms a circle and so that everyone in a group can hold onto the rope with both hands. Lay the rope in a circle on the floor, and ask the group to stand around the circle, pick up the rope circle with both hands and close their eyes. Instruct them to walk in a circle a couple of times so they're good and dizzy, and then ask them to form a square using the rope without opening their eyes.