The word 'craze' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a sudden, intense enthusiasm for something. For example: "The latest social media craze has teens glued to their phones every day."
Speedway met Hemingway in an event aiming to become America's latest extreme sports craze.
On the same weekend, two films were splurged out in an attempt to cash in on the dance craze that had spread to America in the late 80s.
Why not fossil mammal fandom or a craze for critters from the Cambrian period?
Trying to be down with the kids has often left film-makers lost, desperately appealing to a fickle audience who are busy moving on to the next craze.
Is India's smart city craze doomed from the start?
With millions of downloads in its first few days on the App Store, Mr Jump is certainly something of a craze.
It's as if nothing has changed, and they're back in an age where all functional objects took time to handcraft, and 99p pile-em-high-sell-em-cheap stores were an untold craze of the future.
And the challenge has been blamed for causing a water shortage on the Scottish island of Colonsay after its 135 inhabitants picked up on the craze.
But we'd heard about the latest American craze of skateboarding and fancied having a go.
Just think of the scandals and criminal prosecutions produced by the junk-bond and leveraged-buyout craze of the 1980s.
As the boomer generation matured, married, found jobs and shouldered mortgages, so the crime rate fell.This encouraging trend was quickly overshadowed, starting in the mid-1980s, by a new swarm of teenagers caught up in a new sort of depravity: the craze for crack cocaine.
