| PA | Physical activity |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| NGS | Next-generation sequencing |
| SCFA | Short-chain fatty acids |
| MET | Metabolic equivalent |
| IPAQ-SF | International Physical Activity Questionnaire-Short Form |
| ASVs | Amplicon sequence variants |
| DADA2 | Divisive Amplicon Denoising Algorithm 2 |
| QIIME 2 | Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology 2 |
| FDR | False discovery rate |
| PERMANOVA | Permutational Multivariate Analysis of Variance |
| PERMDISP | Permutational Multivariate Analysis of Dispersion |
| PCoA | Principal coordinate analysis |
| BH | Benjamini–Hochberg |
| BCa | Bias-corrected and accelerated |