Is "touring bike" a common term in the USA?
It seems that the manufacturers themselves may be a bit confused as to what to call them.

Starting from a known set of bikes that I (and you) would consider touring bikes, I found:


The Trek 520 is categorized under "Adventure &amp; Touring Bikes"
The Surly Long Haul Trucker is under "Touring" (someone got it right!)
The Kona Sutra is listed under "Road / Gravel"
The Specialized AWOL can be found by a search, but doesn't show up in any category listing!


(Cannondale makes a bike they claim is a touring bike (the "Touring Apex 1") but it's an aluminium frame, so I discount it.  But they also don't have a proper category for it, and it only shows up in the total listing of all road bikes.)