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The time spent in sleep, sedentary behavior, and physical activity form a 24-hour movement behavior composition. The objective was to identify neighborhood physical environment features associated with multiple components of the movement behavior composition among 10 to 13-year-olds. Twenty-three neighborhood physical environment features were measured in 1 km buffers from the participantsʻ homes and from these walkability, traffic safety, dedicated play spaces, non-dedicated play spaces, noise, and artificial light indices were created. Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, light physical activity, sedentary time, and sleep duration were measured. Compositional data analysis was used to establish differences in movement behaviors according to neighborhood physical environment features. One hundred and sixteen associations, reflecting four movement behaviors X 29 environment variables and …