That's beyond ignorant. It's an artistic sport. But it's a sport. It takes extreme athleticism to be able to carry out most of the required elements. Look how proud of themselves people who manage to do a fucking pistol squat are? Because pistol squats are hard. But a basic sit spin, is a pistol squat entered and held while creating and controlling rotational force that is increasing your weight. Then raised out of in a way that vastly increases the rotational force and will throw you off your axis if every muscle in your body isn't actively working. I was able to be able to do weighted pistol squats, Nordics, reverse Nordics, Bulgarian, ATG spilt squat and deadlift 125% of my bw before I could hold form on a sit spin.

And that's just the spins. Spins are used as training for jumps from single axel up. Getting the height, rotational force, control of the rotation, to make multiple rotations in the air and land on one leg, on a blade travelling backwards at speed on ice, at multiples of your body weight is an athlethic feat most people can't even begin to get close to. And pairs skating requires throws and throw assisted jumps and catches. Meaning the male skater has to skate and catch his partner at multiple times her body weight when she has rotated in the air.

The fact that the skaters are also judged on artistry makes it harder because they don't just have to complete often dangerous elements. They have to do it while looking great. You'd honestly have to be immensely stupid to think that just because skaters train to make what the do look easy, that it actually is.