Bungee Run Hire

The bungee run - sometimes called an inflatable bungee run or a bungee cord run - is a head-to-head race for two players. Each straps into a harness attached to a bungee cord at the back of the inflatable, runs forward down their lane, and tries to place a Velcro marker as far down the centre wall as possible before the elastic pulls them back. The player who gets their marker furthest wins.

Ours is a dual-lane inflatable made by Airquee, red and black, with padded side walls and a central divider. It sits on a flat site whether that's grass outdoors or a sports hall floor, and it runs off one standard 13amp socket for the blower. We deliver and set it up, then hand it over to whoever is overseeing on the day.

Size, power and setup

• Around 36ft long, so it wants a fair bit of room: a sports pitch, a big lawn, or a hall with the floor space
• Flat grass outdoors, or a hard floor indoors; we anchor it with stakes on grass or sandbags if we're indoors on a surface we can't peg
• One standard 13amp domestic socket
• We bring the harnesses, bungee cords and Velcro markers
• Delivered, set up and collected by our team

Works well at

It earns its keep where there's a crowd and a bit of competitive spirit: corporate fun days and team-building, school and college fun days, scout and youth groups, birthday parties, and village fêtes and festivals. We've run it indoors in sports halls and outdoors on everything from school fields to manor lawns. It tends to draw a queue once people see the first pair get pulled back.

Kate, Office Manager at Spectrum, wrote after their event: "Please can you pass on our thanks to Mark and Nathan for their fantastic supervision of the bungee run yesterday. They really made it such fun for all and everyone thought that they were brilliant. We had such a great afternoon and thank you so much, we will definitely use you again and most definitely recommend you."

The bungee range and other competitive games

If you want the same bungee idea with a tug-of-war twist, the Bungee Eliminator puts both players on the same cord running in opposite directions. For other competitive inflatables, have a look at the surf simulator, archery or the multi sports arena. The full bungee hire range is on one page.

Bungee run hire across Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and London

We've run Monster Event Hire from our unit in Havant since 2002, and the kit is all ours, so the person who turns up to deliver and set up is one of our own staff and not a sub-contractor. They've passed the RPII operator and supervisor exams, are first-aid trained, and hold enhanced DBS certificates, which matters at a school or a youth group. Every inflatable is inspected once a year by our in-house RPII inspector under the PIPA scheme that the HSE recognises, and it's built to BS EN 14960:2019. We carry £10 million public liability insurance, with the certificate and the risk assessment on request, and we hold additional licensed-premises cover, so there's no problem running it at a pub, club or bar.

We cover Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and London, including Havant, Portsmouth, Fareham and Southampton. Tell us the date, the venue and roughly how many you're expecting, and we'll put a quote together.