The word 'gantlet' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a noun to refer to a type of punishment or challenge where a person must run between two rows of people who strike them with sticks or whip them. It can also be used as a verb to describe the act of running this gauntlet. Example: "The prisoner was forced to run the gantlet as punishment for his crimes."
The Super Bowl, being the closest thing that the sports world has to an annual convention, attracts stars and strivers, has-beens and wannabes, who, on their way to and from the TV studios nearby, happily run the gantlet of radio producers desperate to fill time.
Before the great election, the Donald had to vanquish a gantlet of foes in a smaller election, which would be settled in part by a battle of verbal jousting.
Both women had the unquittable job, the dream house in the sticks, and the gantlet in between.
This painless gantlet which instead of torturing & killing people stupefies them & puts them to sleep...at the end brings one to the voice that suggests, "You might try fiction".
And in this, too, he represented Manhattan, the city that in dreams works beautifully and in daily life is a brutal gantlet.
Why, to get to the dining room, must one walk a gantlet of giant oil lamps, as if a Rose Ceremony is about to begin?
One evening, a hostess led a party past the main room and down a narrow hallway, which opened into the kitchen: a gantlet of sorts, lined with staff, all of whom rushed to wish the guests good evening.
It was the first time that Coltrane — a movie star for more than a decade, yet never a public figure — had done a press gantlet, and he started edging away from the microphones.
Braving a gantlet of powdered wigs, sallow skin, and decadence, she is a black innocent surrounded by white grotesques: Lady Hamilton Ellen Maddowwhowho also composed the music), Lord Nelson (the versatile Steven Rattazzi), and William and Catherine Blake as a pair of middle-aged, philosophy-spouting nudists (David Greenspan, as William, gives the show's best performance).
To get to the finish line, a big reform has to run a gantlet of three independently elected "governments" — not just the Presidency but also the House and the Senate, all the members of which are elected independently of one another, too.
The Indian consul-general met him outside and ushered him toward a gantlet of six young women who tossed rose petals in the Mayor's path; he regarded the petals with pleasant surprise, and then strode across them, chin held high, into the party.
