The word "barricade" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an obstacle created to prevent or slow down the progress of someone or something. For example, "The protesters built a barricade to block access to the government building."
Protesting workers were allowed through a police barricade to deliver the petition but complained that they were prevented by security guards from taking it to the actual McDonald's meeting.
Perhaps the most chaotic demonstration on Tuesday night was in Oakland where protesters lit bonfires made of debris and rubbish, creating a dramatic, improvised barricade across Telegraph Avenue.
In short, it made me want to build a barricade using the double-ended bath and never leave.
Same barricade"; another: "Jews, your end is near".
Police drew batons and linked arms to form a human barricade as protesters, some wearing masks and scarves to cover their faces, ran down Whitehall.
Better, the next morning the gloom had vanished and, from my balcony, a barricade of snow peaks seemed almost close enough to touch.
He also told an undercover FBI employee that he would barricade himself in his apartment and had "5,000 rounds, a thousand of it is in magazines, ready to go," according to the affidavit.
In the most recent incident, on 4 March, two reportedly intoxicated secret service agents in a vehicle returning to the White House late at night hit a barricade.
Some had planned to barricade themselves in.
The hard-liners, happy to have a barricade to rush to, look forward to it.This infighting has exasperated left-leaning voters: opinion polls say that more and more have simply had enough.
Yet close by armed thugs in balaclavas guard a barricade fortified with barbed wire and tyres.
