Parenting attitudes are a crucial factor in children’s healthy development. The nature of these attitudes and how children perceive their parents’ attitudes and behaviors influence their tendency towards positive or negative behaviors. This study, which employs a survey model, aims to examine athletes’ perceptions of helicopter parenting attitudes and their social media addictions. The study group consists of 271 volunteer athletes (114 females and 157 males) licensed in various clubs in Ankara, selected using a convenient sampling method. “Perceived Helicopter Parent Attitude Scale” and “Adolescent Social Media Addiction Scale” were used in the study. An examination of the skewness-kurtosis values of the data revealed a homogeneous distribution. Accordingly, parametric tests such as the t-test and ANOVA were applied, and a correlation analysis was conducted for the age variable. The results indicate that athletes’ perceptions of helicopter parenting by their mothers and fathers are influenced by the gender variable, while other variables have no significant effect. It was also found that the variables used in the study had no effect on the group’s levels of social media addiction. Additionally, a low level, negative significant relationship was found between the age variable and athletes’ perceived helicopter parenting attitudes and social media addiction.