society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > take the wrong way (2)
to go wrong. To take a wrong way, road, or course; to go astray. Also in figurative context; and figurative, to make a mistake; to fall into error…
In physical senses. intransitive. Of a person, etc.: to go astray; to go the wrong way. Frequently in figurative contexts.