Whether you’re dealing with dating-app fatigue (been there), recently single and stressing over “getting back out there,” or in a long-term relationship with your forever Netflix-binging partner, it can be easy to forget that going on a date is supposed to be fun. And, hi, yes, it definitely can be—once you get over the whole why get dressed up and actually go do a thing when I could simply rewatch Sex and the City for the 407th time-hump, of course.

The good news is, once you do get over that hump, a brave new world of potential date spots and activities awaits. The only problem is, uh, narrowing down your options and figuring out where you and your person actually should go out. Yes, there’s always dinner and a movie—which, no shade—but sometimes you need something with a little more oomf. Maybe you and your person have been doing your weekly date nights at one of the same three restaurants for years now and are sorta desperate to mix it up. Or maybe you’re planning a first date with a promising new match and want to impress, but not go too hard. Whatever your sitch, it’s very easy to find yourself asking, “Uh, wait, where should we go on a date? What even is a date?” and then simply getting overwhelmed by the possibilities and calling the whole thing off in favor of staying in with a Hulu doc and Thai food. (Also been there!)

Luckily, we are here with more than a few (ahem, 100, to be exact) date ideas for when you need a little inspo—and/or motivation to change out of your leggings and get thee outside on an actual date-date for once. Whether you’re looking for low-key or luxe, romantic or casual, we’ve got something that’s sure to strike the right tone. Here’s to getting out there, friends.

1. Care for a laugh, anyone? To a comedy show you go! If you wanna shell out the big bucks for the taping of your fave comedian’s next Netflix special, by all means, do that. But, FYI, most cities have TONS of affordable (or sometimes even free/donation-/drink minimum-only) standup shows that are just as good, IMO.
2. Go to a burlesque show. Live entertainment + (usually partial) nudity + drinks = the best date I can think of.
   
3. Go to a super-fancy restaurant you’ve had on your bucket-list 5ever. Life is short. Get dressed up and GO TO THE FANCY RESTAURANT, I am literally begging you.
4. Go appetizer hopping. Everyone knows apps are the best part of a meal. Hit up a few of your fave spots and share some small plates and drinks at each one.
5. Host a wine tasting night. Everyone brings a bottle of wine. You cover them all up with paper and number them. Everyone votes for their favorite number. You all get very drunk and maybe find a new favorite wine. But def very drunk.
6. Have a naked day. You’re just naked. All day. Together. That’s it. That’s the date.
7. Have a “Finer Things Club” day. If you’ve seen The Office, you know this involves eating fine food, drinking fine drinks, and discussing high-class things like literature and FILM. If you haven’t seen The Office, there’s your date right there.
8. Take a sex workshop together. These have been around forever, both in person and online, but the online option makes it extra convenient, especially if you’re feeling shy.
   
9. Go to a strip club. Great way to get yourselves all kinds of riled up and find out what kind of tipper your date is (just a thing you should probs know!)
   
10. Go to a sex party. If that’s your thing. (Or if, ahem, you’re curious. Just make sure you do some research first.)
11. Take a non-sex workshop together. Not every couple is gonna wanna sign up for “A Beginner’s Guide to Shibari” and that’s cool! Good thing there are plenty of other options out there. Check CourseHourse for some ideas, or just Google classes for a mutual shared interest and see what’s out there. Even YouTube tutorials count here!
12. Go roller-skating. One order of TikTok fame, right this way. If you haven’t done it before or simply need some brushing up, here are some helpful tips for how to roller skate and plays where you can get a cute-ass pair of skates.
13. Go to a plant nursery and buy some starter plants to grow a garden together. Grow annual flowers for just one season, perennials that come back each and every year, or quick veggies for a cute date idea that lends itself almost too perfectly for a follow-up activity: making dinner together.
14. Go on a hiking date. ONLY if you’re both independently into hiking, that is.
15. Have a spa day. Treat each other to massages and facial treatments (as in the skincare one) at home, or book some couples’ treatments at real-deal spa if you’re feeling spensy.
16. Hit up the nearest bar with a working jukebox. If you don’t have a Google Maps list of jukebox bars, um, WYD? Give each other $2 each to choose the best songs available and compare your impeccable tastes in music.
17. Crash a party. Find a work happy hour at a nearby bar, a wedding in a park, whatever—throw on some nice-ish clothes and pretend you know someone.
18. Play a private game of Never Have I Ever. You said you wanted to get to know each other…
19. Play a game of horny truth or dare. Your middle school sleepovers could never.
20. Create a dinner out of only food truck stuff. Your town *definitely* has at least one—go hit up your local food truck parks and create the most gourmet meal possible.
21. Go axe throwing together. This is apparently a thing now, so um, go do it?
22. Go furniture shopping at an antique store. Looking for lil tchotchkes at a great steal? Sounds perfect.
23. Go to IKEA. It’s the total opposite of thrift store shopping and yet just as fun. Also, if your flirtation can survive this, it can survive an-y-thing.
    
24. Take a trip to a nearby tourist destination. Is there a big state park you’ve both always lived super close to but never visited? Now’s the time.
25. Go to the library together. Wander through the stacks and see what you two can bond over. Libraries forever. Also, we’re not gonna say you should bang in a library, but…we’re not not gonna say it.
26. Take a bunch of personality quizzes. Are you a Khaleesi or an Arya, a blueberry pop tart or an unfrosted strawberry one? None of this affects your relationship, except, um, it totally does and it’s fun.
27. Go to a psychic together. Don’t trust your own romantic instincts? Let a professional take your relationship to the stars.
28. Go on a walking tour. At worst, you spent $10 on a corny thing you can laugh at together, and at best, you learn a bunch of cool stuff with a really cool person.
29. See a horrible movie. Nothing bonds like hate-spo!
30. Role-play as strangers in a bar. It doesn’t even have to be sexual—it can just be funny.
31. Make each other playlists and go on an aimless drive. Listen to each other’s bops and see where the night takes you!
32. See an improv show. It’s usually cheap or free, and you’re almost guaranteed a fun time even if it’s horrible.
33. Go camping. Cuddling under the stars…what could be more romantic?
34. Do an at-home movie marathon with a theme. Watch everything an actor or actress has done or all the iterations of A Star Is Born or only movies that take place in a certain city.
35. Host a dinner party. You can cook everything or have your friends each bring a dish.
36. Host a board game party. Yes, Heads Up counts.
37. Go to an art gallery. Gallery openings are usually free and most of the time, they’ve got wine and snacks on deck, so you know, that’s a THING.
38. Do something low-key competitive like play a game of basketball or Ping-Pong together. Healthy competition never hurt anyone.
39. Try the 36 Questions to Fall in Love. It doesn’t work every time, but it is a fun conversation starter.
40. Go to an open house. It really doesn’t matter how far into your relationship you are/aren’t—snooping around other people’s houses and just being in the mind-set of “playing house” is objectively VERY FUN.
41. Go to a pumpkin patch. It’s cute, it’s romantic, and then, at the end, you get to use knives in a fun way!
42. Go on a museum date. Art! And staring at things as a way to fill any awkward silences.
43. Have dinner and see a movie. Eating food and watching someone tell you stories is a classic for a reason.
44. Take a long walk together. You don’t need a destination because you have each other. Aww.
45. Go on a picnic. Few things are more romantic than packing up an old-fashioned picnic. If you’ve never done this, now’s the time.
46. Go horseback riding. You both might get thrown from the horse and then you’ll get to spend time together in a hospital bed. So cute.
47. Go to a pottery class. One word, one movie: Ghost.
48. Go apple picking. Preferably you’re both wearing flannel and frolicking in leaves, and then later, cider happens!
49. Take a painting class. One word, one movie: Titanic.
    
50. Take a cooking class. One word, one movie. Ratatouille. (Surprisingly sweet love story there, too!)
51. Go to the opera. Anything you get to dress super fancy for is instant romance. Plus, singing! Also, stoking the flames of your Phantom of the Opera fantasy? (Just me?)
52. Go to the ballet. Have you seen Black Swan? That could get romantic or deadly. Totally worth price of admission (also, see above note about young patrons!).
53. Grab drinks at a bar. Okay, yes, duh, this has been the standard first date for as long has there have been dating and bars. But there are variations, okay? Go to your favorite bar or a totally new bar or a bar you’d never usually go to. Mix it up! Classic because it’s easy and good.
54. Have a coffee date. It’s super casual and no one will puke on your shoes after.
55. Go to a house party together. Maybe they’re your friends, maybe they’re mutual friends. Either way, you get out of the house and into someone else’s free booze.
56. Go to the beach. Gorgeous water, lots of sun, and both of you are kind of naked!
57. Go skiing. Because it’ll make you super cold, which gives you an excuse to warm each other up later.
58. Go to a bed and breakfast. It’s like a date inside someone else’s house!
59. Go to trivia night at a bar. What’s more fun than proving you know more than the person with whom you’re on a date? Nothing.
60. Go to a sports game. Watch other people win and lose and sit there and judge them. Also, sports have the best snacks—give me a hot dog and a drink and I’ll pretend to care about sports for as long as you want, babe.
61. Go to the park. Sit on a bench, lie in the grass. You’re already imagining yourself there right now and it feels cool, doesn’t it?
62. Go see a play. Get thee to the theater! Broadway, local theater—doesn’t matter. Sit in the back and make out.
63. Go to a water park. There are slides, and also, once again: You’re kinda naked.
64. Make out in the backseat of your car. It’s like you’re 16 again with no curfew—and now you actually know what you’re doing.
65. Go to a hookah bar. Because, um, you can?
66. Go to a farmers’ market. And make a whole picnic lunch out of your new, organic spoils.
67. Get brunch. There’s booze, there’s food, and you just woke up next to each other. What’s not great about that?
68. Go to the club. Dressing up like fabulous freaks, dancing like fabulous freaks—it’s a great time.
69. Go to a haunted house. If it’s scary, it’ll bring you closer. If it’s cheesy, you can make fun of it, which will bring you closer. Win-win.
70. Go to a workout class. Best case scenario: You get fit and have a great time. Worst case scenario: You use them to get a referral credit on ClassPass.
71. Go on a brewery tour. Usually there are beer samples so you can get drunk in a place that’s like a semi-education beer class.
72. Go to a bookstore. You haven’t read that???
73. Go to a record store. You haven’t heard that???
74. Go to a cheese tasting. You know, if you can trust your IBS to sit this one out.
75. Make a new recipe together. Yet another excuse to buy a cookbook with beautiful photos inside.
76. Go whale watching. Can’t see any whales? Oh well. You have each other.
77. Go to karaoke. Willingness to embarrass yourself in public in front of your date/partner is the surest sign of true love, last time we checked.
78. Go paddleboarding. Who doesn’t love trying to balance so they don’t fall in a lake?
79. Go to the botanical gardens. Gorgeous flowers everywhere make everything smell and look amazing. Nothing is better.
80. Go bowling. If you hate bowling, then there are always the pitchers of beer.
81. See a drive-in movie. It’s like a regular movie except inside a car. (Translation: Swap your classic movie theater hand job for full-on car sex.)
82. Go ice skating. Classic.
83. Take a dance class. Ballroom, flamenco, pole, whatever gets ya goin’.
84. Go to a concert. Go see some local band in your town or a giant arena show.
85. Go on a double date. Take any of these dates and do that with two more people. This list just became 200 date ideas. (Yes, we math.
86. Go to a vineyard and try wine tasting. It’s like you’re the people in Sideways.
87. Book a dinner cruise. Boats are romantic. Dinners are romantic. This is double romantic.
88. Rent a hotel room. Last-minute reservation services like OneNight make a little semi-staycation in your own city weirdly affordable.
89. Check out a local film festival. This could be laughably terrible, or you could find some really cool off-the-radar films. Either way, you win.
90. Head to a convention. See if something interesting is around and grab tickets for a day. There’s always something—tattoos, comics, music, etc.—around.
91. Do a romantic fast food date. Pick up McDonald’s, light some candles, put on something silky, and toast to greasy fries and everlasting love.
92. Drive to a really good view. Maybe it’s just from the top of your high school (we won’t tell) or maybe you have a really good hilltop—whatever it is, get there and make out on it.
93. Visit your hometown. Showing your partner where you grew up isn’t something only Bachelor and Bachelorette contestants can/should do.
94. Have an arcade date. Channel your inner ’80s teens. John Hughes writes your life now.
95. Postmates them a dinner order you think they’ll love. And they do the same for you. No telling until they both arrive and you’ve gotta eat it no matter what!
96. Spend the whole day doing only new things. And “new” only counts if neither of you have done it. Basically a rom-com in the making. (Jk, it’s already been made, and it’s called Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Maybe you’ve heard of it?)
97. Go to a murder mystery dinner. Dinner *and* a show—what could be better? Bonus points to the person who figures out whodunnit first.
98. Try an escape room. And if you never get out, then at least you’re stuck together.
99. Go on a ghost tour. If you and your boo are into all things creepy, then a ghost tour gives you a chance to learn some history and get a lil creeped out (or just lol @ the ppl who get creeped out).
100. Visit a break bar or wrecking room. ICYMI, “rage rooms” are all the rage rn (heh).