Going astray is a term used to describe when someone strays from the right path or loses their way. It can be used to describe physical movement, such as wandering, erring, rambling, deviating, and derailing, or it can be used to describe moral behavior, such as sinning, transgressing, aberrating, and getting off track. All of these words are synonyms for the term go astray, and they all describe the same concept of losing one's way.