The word "leapt" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as the past tense of the verb "leap," which means to jump or move suddenly and quickly. Example sentence: The cat leapt across the room in one bound.
Eventually the Weatherwatch "leapt into the computer age", which meant data from a Unisys laptop that would now only serve as the basis for an internet meme.
That sent the Swiss franc soaring once again – it initially leapt an unprecedented 30% against the euro.
Ultimately, for all the hype and the over-hype, the most incredible story of Oscar night 2000 is still Sam Mendes, the young director who has leapt to the very top of the movies with his very first jump.
Norwich City leapt into second with a comprehensive 2-0 victoverover Sheffield Wednesday, thanks to a first-half brace from Bradley Johnson.
New Labour rightly distilled the lesson that there can be advantages to being open to international investment – think of Toyota's expanding Derbyshire plant – but wrongly leapt to the conclusion that the state's only duty in policing takeovers was to safeguard competition.
Traffic to the website leapt from an average of about 700,000 page impressions a day before the September 11 attacks, to 1.2m page views a day in the immediate aftermath.
And support among under-40s has leapt from 39% to 60%.
On Thursday, when the paper reintroduced nipples, the number of signatories to the campaign's petition leapt by 17,000.
She watched it for ten minutes as it leapt onto a barn roof before it strolling off towards Sedgwick.
Disaster turned to farce some hours later at the press conference launching the campaign, when Bennett was asked by a reporter if she had let party members down, a point with which she seemed ready to agree, before Green peer Lady Jones leapt to her feet to declare: "She's not going to answer that!
When, in 1957, Trocchi was arrested in New York on drug charges, Debord and the situationists leapt vigorously to his defence with a pamphlet called "Hands Off Alex Trocchi!" where they described him "as a new type of artist".
