The phrase "across the lap" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is positioned or placed over someone's lap, often in a physical or metaphorical context.
Example: "She placed the blanket across the lap of her child to keep him warm."
Alternatives: "over the lap" or "on the lap".
The drum is held across the lap and played on both ends with the hands and fingers.
Ramya Sundaresan Kapadia sang and played hand bells; Sreenivas Ponnappan played the mridangam (a drum held across the lap); Vikram Ragukumar played the violin.
Sumer also had horizontal arched harps i.e., laid across the lap, strings toward the player, and sounded by a plectrum swept across the strings, the left-hand fingers damping unneeded strings.
With bullets slamming into the passenger side, Mr. Guzman said he desperately propelled himself across the lap of the car's driver, Sean Bell, while urging Mr. Bell to get them out of there.
They are in love, sandwiched on the freshly excavated couch, Brian lying with legs across the lap of Jeff, falling asleep on this couch, the couch they found on the sidewalk that one summer when it hailed.
I turned and saw Ali's two-hundred-and-fifty-pound frame sprawled across the lap of a dignified gray-haired man in a dark suit who was shouting, "Oh, oh, ohhh!" The man was Jeremiah Shabazz, a Muslim minister and former brother-in-law of Malcolm X, and not someone you'd ever wish to offend.
As she sprawled across the laps of other spectators, medics rushed in to attend to her.
Periodically, everyone has to flee for cover, either by lying across the laps of the passengers lucky enough to have a seat, or by climbing into the luggage racks on the ceiling to allow the optimistically named "buffet" cart to pass through just in case anyone wants to spend £50 on a packet of crisps or a single fruit pastille.
Note that the Tau neurons shifted their firing locations, but maintained the same firing sequences across the laps.
The bottom is the firing rate curve averaged across all the laps.
"There is no letup across the whole lap so it requires a lot of focus," said Jules Bianchi, a driver at the Marussia team.
