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Background: Badminton is considered a physically demanding sport. In badminton court players need to be able to change direction rapidly, accelerate quickly, and react swiftly to their opponent's shots for which a combination of speed, agility, endurance and hand - eye coordination is required. Agility is one of the important components in badminton players. Objective: To compare the effects of core strengthening exercises and Dynamic stretching exercises on agility in badminton Players. Methods: In this pre - post intervention study 60 badminton players were included. They were randomly divided into 2 groups with 30 individuals each. Group A was treated with core strengthening exercises and Group B with dynamic stretching exercises for 6 weeks. After pre - post assessment, data was analyzed with the help of appropriate statistical methods. Results: According to the result, in Group A and Group B there is significant difference in agility with p value <0.001. Conclusion: The study concluded that core strengthening exercises and dynamic stretching exercises had good effect on agility of the players but in comparison core strengthening exercises are more effective than dynamic stretching.