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Abstract: Badminton is one of the fastest popular games in various corners of the world. The intensity of the game needs various motor fitness components; one of them is agility. The main purpose of the study was to analyze the effect of plyometric exercises with skill oriented exercises on the agility of badminton players. The study was carried out with 50 badminton players, 25 experimental and 25 control groups from the northeast region between the age group of 18 to 25 years. Twelve (12) weeks of the training program were employed for the experimental group only. Semo Agility test was used as a tool to collect and analyze data before and immediately after the completion of 12 weeks of the training program. Jamovi 2.0.0.0 version software was used to examine the data, to test the hypothesis-dependent t-test and ANCOVA for the main effect was employed; the level of significance was set at 0.05. The normality of the data was treated with Shapiro Wilk, p=0.247, and was found no violation, p>0.05. In conclusion, the result shows that there was significance difference observed between the adjusted mean of the experimental group (ANCOVA, F=108, p<0.001; which is lesser than 0.05) as compared to the control group; So the Post hoc Tukey test was employed for pair wise mean comparison (MD=0.68, p<0.001); insignificance mean difference was observed between pre and posttest mean of the control group (t=0.244@, p=0.809>0.05) but significant difference was established among pretest and posttest mean of experimental group (t=9.57*, p?0.001, much lesser than 0.05), Thus the researcher suggested to focus on plyometric exercises with skill-oriented exercises to improve the agility of badminton players.