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Moderate to vigorous physical activity, defined by activities increasing respiration and pulse rate for at least 10 continuous minutes, was modeled with brain volumes via partial correlations. Analyses adjusted for age, sex, and total intracranial volume, and a 5% Benjamini-Hochberg False Discovery Rate addressed multiple comparisons. Results: Participant average age was 52.98\u00b113.04 years (range 18\u201397) and 52.3% were biologically male. Of these, 7,606 (75.1%) reported engaging in moderate or vigorous physical activity approximately 4.05\u00b13.43 days per week. Those with vigorous activity were slightly younger (p\u200a&lt;\u200a0.00001), and fewer women compared to men engaged in such activities (p\u200a=\u200a3.76e-15). Adjusting for age, sex, body mass index, and multiple comparisons, increased days of moderate to vigorous activity correlated with larger normalized brain volumes in multiple regions including: total gray matter (Partial R\u200a=\u200a0.05, p\u200a=\u200a1.22e-7), white matter (Partial R\u200a=\u200a0.06, p\u200a=\u200a9.34e-11), hippocampus (Partial R\u200a=\u200a0.05, p\u200a=\u200a5.96e-7), and frontal, parietal, and occipital lobes (Partial R\u200a=\u200a0.04, p\u22641.06e-5). 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