When an anti-Israeladvocate is debating and realizes that they are about to lose the argument so they jump from the subject they were debating to another in order to avoid admitting they were wrong.
Ali was lily padding between Israel being a settler colonialist state to being an apartheid state to committing a genocide in order to avoid admitting she was wrong about all three accusations.
The act of sitting in a hot car after engaging in a water-based activity, such as swimming or diving, without turning on the air conditioning, allowing oneself to bask in the trapped heat and humidity like a lily-pad in a pond on a hot summer day.
Hannah and Dan were late to the party because they spent 15-minutes lily-padding in the parking lot after swim practice.