2025/2026 Winter Steps Challenge

As the sun begins to disappear, now is a great time to start planning to keep your employees moving during those long winter months.

Celebrate this holiday season with a winter wonderland walk to Lapland or choose from one of our 340+ routes.

One of our popular walking routes

A virtual walk across Lapland

Our special winter walk through Lapland is the perfect route for a company step challenge this festive season.

Why not get all of your employees walking 7500 steps a day in teams of 5, to complete our virtual Lapland route over the course of 6 weeks.

Winter in Lapland

Winter in Lapland

Step Count

1377578
Steps

Kilometers

944
km

Miles

587
miles

Route Description

Winter in Lapland: Looking for a challenge to finish the year off in style? Why not head north towards the Arctic Circle and snowy Lapland, the largest and northernmost region of Finland. Perfect for some winter fun.

Pricing Includes

  • 4-6 week challenge
  • 100 participants spaces to start with
  • Option to add more participants
  • Access to website and apps
  • Connect to Fitbit, Garmin, Apple or Android
Total
(excluding tax)
£560/$780/€680

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What is a virtual walking challenge?

Big Team Challenge's virtual walking challenges allow you to create your own private activity challenge for you and your employees or charity group to participate in and track their physical activity over a number of weeks.

Get active and motivate your team!

We've built this special route to Lapland, but we also have over 300 other routes from all around the world. If you'd rather feel warm during winter, you can walk with your team around the Caribbean islands or across sunny Australia. Your real-world steps will be mapped on to the virtual route, making sure everyone stays active and allowing you to explore somewhere exciting this winter!

How it works

  • There's no limit to the amount of participants
  • Get organised into teams of between 2 and 20 people
  • Teammates add their steps into the team's collective total
  • Teams track their progress against other teams on the leaderboard
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How do I organise a step challenge and what do the participants get?
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Team Walking Challenge App

iPhone and Apple Watch are beside other showing how the two systems can communitcate and track your steps.

Our easy-to-use iPhone and Android apps are the simplest way to take part in the challenge. Download the app, sync your steps, and race to the top of the leaderboard!

  • Free access to both the website and mobile apps
  • Connect to Fitbit, Garmin and Apple Watch
  • Sync steps from Apple Health, Google Fit and more
  • Option to track steps manually if needed
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How your walking challenge works

At it's simplest level, Big Team Challenge allows your users to convert their real life activities, such as walking and running, into distance a long a virtual map around the world.

Our online system allows for complete control and flexibility when it comes to running an online walking challenge for your employees. It's available worldwide, regardless of location or timezone.

The Big Team Challenge iphone and Android app shows the virtual map screen depicting how users can convert their daily step counts into distance on a virtual map around the world
For organisers

Create your own walking challenge

When you create your account you'll have access to our Challenge Admin area and Challenge Creator. This will give you the ability to build and launch as many challenges as you like and have access to all of your participants' information and reporting data.

The admin area allows you to:

  • Create, edit and manage your own challenges
  • View and download participant information
  • Add, edit and delete teams
  • and much more
For participants

Mobile apps, Fitbit & Garmin integration, website access, and lots more!

After launching your challenge, you will instantly have access to a landing page where your participants can sign up and access the challenge itself.

Participants have free access to the website and our iOS and Android mobile apps.

Participants can:

  • View their team's progress along virtual map
  • Create or join existing teams, and invite others
  • Track their daily step count and add it to their team total
  • Connect to Fitbit, Garmin Connect, Apple Health and Google Fit
  • View the leaderboard
three smart phones are surrounded by the Apple Appstore and Google Playstore logos. Each phone has a different screen of the Big Team Challenge app showing different ways users can interact with the step challenge.

Would you prefer to walk somewhere else?

We have hundreds of walks from all around the world suiting challenges of different sizes and lengths, and all of them are free-to-use when you build your challenge. If you're wanting to walk somewhere specific to your organisation (perhaps between your office locations), we can also help you build a custom route for an additional fee.

Popular Virtual Routes

USA - Stage 8

USA - Stage 8

Step Count
3090501
Steps
Distance (km)
2119
KMs
Description

USA - Stage 8: The eighth leg of an epic walk through the state capitals of all 48 contiguous states (apologies to Alaska and Hawaii) of this amazing, diverse country; the fourth largest In the world, covering a vast swath of North America.

England's UNESCO Trail

England's UNESCO Trail

Step Count
3499788
Steps
Distance (km)
2400
KMs
Description

England’s UNESCO Trail: Some of England’s most famous and iconic cultural and natural heritage highlights brought together in this walk featuring all of its impressive collection of diverse UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Biospheres and Creative Cities.

French Polynesia

French Polynesia

Step Count
7256223
Steps
Distance (km)
4976
KMs
Description

French Polynesia: An overseas collectivity of France in the South Pacific Ocean comprising over 120 beautiful islands and atolls spread out over more an area five times larger than France. Volcanic peaks, stunning sandy beaches, breathtaking turquoise lagoons and coral reefs. Enticing!

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