Previous studies demonstrated that acute exercise can enhance glucose uptake (GU), γ3-AMPK activity, and Akt Substrate of 160 kDa (AS160) phosphorylation in skeletal muscles from low fat diet (LFD) and high fat diet (HFD) fed male rats. Because little is known about exercise-effects on these outcomes in females, we assessed postexercise GU by muscles incubated ±insulin, delta-insulin GU (GU of muscles incubated with insulin minus GU uptake of paired muscles incubated without insulin), and muscle signaling proteins from female rats fed a LFD or brief-HFD (2wk). Rats were sedentary (LFD-SED, HFD-SED) or swim-exercised. Immediately postexercise (IPEX) or 3h postexercise (3hPEX), epitrochlearis muscles were incubated (no insulin IPEX; ±insulin 3hPEX) to determine GU. Muscle γ3-AMPK activity (IPEX, 3hPEX) and phosphorylated AS160 (pAS160; 3hPEX) were also assessed. γ3-AMPK activity and insulin-independent GU of IPEX-rats exceeded sedentary-rats without diet-related differences in either outcome. At 3hPEX, both GU by insulin-stimulated muscles and delta-insulin GU exceeded their respective diet-matched sedentary controls. GU by insulin-stimulated muscles, but not delta-insulin GU for LFD-3hPEX exceeded HFD-3hPEX. LFD-3hPEX versus LFD-SED had greater γ3-AMPK activity and greater pAS160. HFD-3hPEX exceeded HFD-SED for pAS160, but not for γ3-AMPK activity. pAS160 and γ3-AMPK at 3hPEX did not differ between diet-groups. These results revealed that increased γ3-AMPK activity at 3hPEX was not essential for greater GU in insulin-stimulated muscle or greater delta-insulin GU in HFD-female rats. Similarly elevated γ3-AMPK activity in LFD-IPEX versus HFD-IPEX and pAS160 in LFD-3hPEX versus HFD-3hPEX may contribute to the comparable, delta-insulin GU at 3hPEX in both diet groups.